Noam (I don’t know him) is ten years older than I. It appears that we both went to a kibbutz at
the same time in 1958-59. I don't know where he went in Israel, I went to
Kibbutz Hagoshrim. The kibbutz was the
perfect communist ideal, with everyone owning the same belongings, common childcare
and rotating work duties including management.
I quickly noticed that not everyone was equal. There was self-differentiation and ranking in the form of different cigarettes, toothbrushes and casual clothing. There was work differentiation and ranking; more women were in the laundry and kitchen than men.
My interpretation was that communism was an ideology that was inadequate for even the best intentioned humans.
I assume, from his behavior during the rest of his life,
that Noam Chomsky came to the opposite conclusion: that people were inadequate
for the ideal of communism.
Chomsky came up with a linguistic model that human language is Platonic, a reflection of inborn structural characteristics. He also has a Platonic model of human behavior and has spent forty-five years berating the world (especially America and Israel) for not living up to his ideal Marxist standards.
Our kibbutz experience taught us each a different lesson.