Williams is Grade-A, 100% Clueless Jerk.
And that is being charitable.
No, he’s a Communist, pure and simple. Read the “manifesto” he wrote. Pure unadulterated Marxism. He demonstrated against the U.S. nuclear sub base when the Soviet Union was still basically Stalinist. He’s probably more than just a useful idiot, because at that time the “antiwar” Left was funded heavily by the Soviets.