Huh? William A. Williams not a socialist? Paul Buhle in his book on Williams quotes him dissing snotty nosed New Leftists in the late 60's but folks like Christopher Lasch, Lezek Kolakowski and Eugene Genovese thought the same too.
See these sources, Radical History Review, Symposium on Williams, Alperovitz, Gar, et al. • William Appleman Williams: A Symposium. 50:39-70.Other contributors, Marilym B. Young, Lloyd Gardner (an alum of of the Madison journal, Studies on the Left, on which see, http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/574_reg_print.html Walter La Feber, Saul Landau, Christopher Lasch, Manning Marable, Martin Sklar.
An interesting essay by a Libertarian on Williams , http://www.antiwar.com/stromberg/s111699.html
Buhle's book on Williams, Buhle, Paul M. and Rice-Maximin, Edward. William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of Empire, JUN96. ... http://www.monthlyreview.org/volume48.htm .
Heh, The John Birch Society - Vietnam - The Conspiracy Above Communism ... ... CFR luminary suggests we "follow another piece of advice from William Appleman Williams, ... useless to deny the enormous and unique contribution of Marx, ... http://www.jbs.org/vietnam/press/consp_comm.htm
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/AmerSoc_5707.htm Michael Pugliese