"Chomsky has no theory of the subject -- i.e. why millions of Americans desperately want to believe that Saddam Hussein = Osama bin Laden, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. Foucault, by contrast, spends lots of time tracing out how power works *within* subjects, i.e. why it is that so many people end up extolling their oppressors and identifying with their conditions of captivity."
Well, he was most definitely an applier rather than an inventor: take a little denatured Marxism, sprinkle with psychoanalysis, perambulate in belle lettrist way, et voila!
Joanna