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Chomskyan Political Philosophy

Neil Smith's *Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals* is typically recommended to understand his influence on Philosophy of Mind and Linguistics, but I don't know what to read to understand his opinions regarding politics.  What text best expounds his vision for libertarian socialism?
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He’s not a political theorist, and he’ll tell you that. 

Most of his views come from a wide range of political thinkers like Rousseau, Humboldt (who is also important for his linguistics), Marx, Bakunin and Kropotkin, etc. IMO, his biggest influence is Bertrand Russell, who thought that we don’t need theory so much as investigating actual events using common sense. 

He’s also criticized Rawls’ *Theory of Justice* for being so abstract as to be completely useless in the real world.