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Yes, Chomsky does have a problem with lumping together anyone who he sees as having any kind of a unifying interest, I think it comes from his early political influences which have a very pronounced kind of class struggle thinking, that shows up overtly in his writings on anarchism and implicitly color all of his future analyses. He sometimes comes close to recognizing individual differences within what he sees as classes, but usually when quoting other people, and the significance of what they're saying never seems to sink in.

It is no wonder he's so depressed about the future, the belief that anyone with power is allied with everyone else with power on every conceivable issue is as good as forecasting permanent defeat. For example he writes off the end of the Vietnam war as something that happened when business interests turned against it, not really thinking about the fact that business interests are not completely inaccessible to normal people and in fact are normal people. They're just not academics.