I won't deny he made significant contributions to the field of linguistics, although his rationalist position on the Human language is debatable, but in regard to geopolitics and socioeconomics? My guy, Michael Parenti's works and lectures are right there. Hell, there are a plethora of Western Marxist thinkers in the last century that have far better input on how Base and Superstructure operates than Chomsky ever did. Even fucking Einstein had better takes on Socialism than he did.

Just because Chomsky is more popular and his works are cited more by liberals, doesn't mean he should be lauded by anyone on the left as an arbiter of 'socialist' thought. Especially when his views on AES have always been downright reactionary and orientalist (no, not "in his late years" but for decades), calling states like the DPRK "the most horrible regime in Human history" and China "a very brutal society, a brutal government. I don’t feel any particular interest in improving relations with it.".

As someone who descended from a family who came from that "very brutal society" I do not have any qualms denouncing someone like Chomsky who peddles bigoted views against non-western societies.

Also, I think simply calling him a "pedophile sympathizer" is minimizing his complicity don't you think? You're acting as if he just questioned age of consent laws or expressed sympathy to Epstein when what he really did was actively collaborate with and defend a Billionaire paedophile that he was VERY close with. He even received tens of thousands of dollars from Epstein to fund his linguistic academic pursuits lmao. Even if you ignore the whole pedo ring, he was still an active class collaborator with the American bourgeoisie (which honestly, explains his anti-communist views a lot). He may be an intellectual, but an ally of the socialist left he is not.