Academic radicalism was an intellectual identification without everyday organizational practice.

Evidence

Radicalism had been, for most of them, a state of mind, brought about by an intellectual identification with the revolutionary wave that had gripped so much of the world when they were truly young; of the day-to-day drudgeries of, say, a political party or a trade union they had been (and were to remain) largely innocent. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 269

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Frankfurt School lesson that attitude-level radicalism (publicly socialist in feeling) could convert readily — here generalized to an entire generation of literary theorists. — connects to: Radicalism among critics is reduced to abstract prestige within an allotted pattern — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 228; Contemporary literary radicalism never examines its own class determination and self-censorship — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 41

Broader Connections

• Radicalism among critics is reduced to abstract prestige within an allotted pattern #corroborates (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 228
• Contemporary literary radicalism never examines its own class determination and self-censorship #corroborates (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 41