His enthusiastic followers such as Lees were, by contrast, much more "confrontational" and sought to drive a "rhetorical wedge" between Chomsky's work and that of post-Bloomfieldians, arguing that the latter does not qualify as linguistic "science".
His enthusiastic followers such as Lees were, by contrast, much more "confrontational". They sought to drive a "rhetorical wedge" between Chomsky's work and that of post-Bloomfieldians (i.e. American linguists in the 1940s et 1950s), arguing that the latter does not qualify as linguistic "science".