I think of all of the right wing nuts who blamed Marx for living in poverty and thus not allowing his wife and children to rise into the middle class. If Chomsky had give away all of his money he would be blamed for that also.
But not only is the article irrelevant it is also badly researched. Chomsky makes money giving speeches but most of that money is paid by institutions and then donated to grass roots organizations. Most often he schedules linguistic lectures, where he gets paid professionally, to coincide with political lectures where he doesn't get paid, thus allowing his professional life subsidize his activist life. Which is exactly what we should all be doing!
Jerry
On 4/23/06, Michael Hoover <hooverm at scc-fl.edu> wrote:
>
> what a hoover institute *fellow* (lions and tigers and bears
> oh my!) has to say about nc... mh
>
> HISTORY AND CULTURE:
> Noam Chomsky, Closet Capitalist
> Peter Schweizer
> Chomsky talks an anti-capitalist game, but what does he practice?
> Market economics at their most profitable.
> Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
>
> http://www.hooverdigest.org/061/schweizer.html
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