Noam Chomsky Quotes:
Ocupation: Linguist
Life: b. December 7, 1928
Birthday: December 7
So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought to call democracy.
source: Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012. 
topic: Achievement, Democracy, Feudal System
