Perry Anderson is English. Poor Brits. It's not as if they have a shortage of pomposity without him. By the way, if you want to read actual left-wing thinking, try E.P. Thompson's Poverty of Theory which concerns Professor Anderson quite a bit.

And it was a good thing for the far right, the global elites, and the "left". Which strikes some of us as an interesting sociopolitical phenomenon not unrelated to the class interests of "left" intellectuals.