He wrote his first pro-anarchist essay at the age of ten

"While "anarchy" was proclaimed loudly from the stages of some punk rock shows I attended. I felt isolated in my belief that there was something profound, and profoundly serious, about the doctrine I had adopted-something beyond easy exhortations to "smash the state," without any suggestion of how, or what to replace it with. I'd read the classics-Proudhon. Bakunin, Kropotkin-but they were hard to find, (to mention dead). Chomsky was not only alive, he was a widely-read, well-respected intellectual, who wrote his first pro-anarchist essay at the age of ten, hung our at anarchist newsstands and bookshops on 4th Avenue in Manhattan as a teenager (not far from my punk stomping grounds), and still maintained his anti-authoritarian beliefs as an adult."