The most advanced socialist thought in England is Raymond Williams' superbly intricate and persuasive work... Any English Marxism will have to measure itself against this landmark in our social thought.

Perry Anderson, "Socialism and pseudo-empiricism." New Left Review 35 (1966): 2-42; as cited in: Blackledge, Paul. Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left. Merlin Press, 2004. p. 91.