IOPOTW (In Other Parts Of The World) Chomsky may have a much lower relative influence on linguistics. For instance in France, you have Ferdinand de Saussure and André Martinet. I read a bit of the later, and it seem to me more solid on some grounds than Chomsky, because more humble (the first act of reason is to acknowledge its limits).
I'd bet in continental Europe the political Chomsky is deemed more interesting than the linguist.
IOPOTW (In Other Parts Of The World) Chomsky may have a much lower relative influence on linguistics. For instance in France, you have Ferdinand de Saussure and André Martinet. I read a bit of the later, and it seem to me more solid on some grounds than Chomsky, because more humble (the first act of reason is to acknowledge its limits).
I'd bet in continental Europe the political Chomsky is deemed more interesting than the linguist.