Left-leaning intellectuals typically shift rightward as careers advance, but Williams moved the opposite way.

Evidence

Williams’s was a peculiar odyssey, quite the reverse of what happens so very often when the commitments and passions of youth give way to professional incorporation and increasing embourgeoisement. Williams’s intellect, always cautious and always reluctant to press too far beyond thresholds of existing convictions, kept moving leftward. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 207

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Raymond Williams’s politics radicalized with age, reversing the usual embourgeoisement — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 79

Broader Connections

• Raymond Williams’s politics radicalized with age, reversing the usual embourgeoisement #exemplifies (0.92) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 79