Assorted words from 'the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals' (Cornel West): Raymond Williams (1921-1988)
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POUM Antifascist Militia card issued to American marxist Harry Milton. On 20 May 1937, Milton saved George Orwell's life after the writer was shot through neck by sniper on the Aragón front, by quickly stopping bleeding. In Catalan reflecting party's strong (Marxist) Cat identity
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**Copy of Border Country in the Marie Curie charity shop in Bracla, Bridgend
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A skilled theatrical craftsman might well remain satisfied with such a situation, and go on writing plays for stock. But #Ibsen was always an artist, for whom the communication of significant experience must be the primary concern
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
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The objective viewpoint, in Pirandello, as in later writers like Ionesco, is a total criticism of the possibility of a knowable world: the centre of what is now called 'absurdism' though many essentially different things are confused with it
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
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This book began as a revision an extension of Drama From Ibsen to Eliot, which was written between 18 and 20 years ago. It can now more properly be described as based on that earlier book, since about half of it is new
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
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**To celebrate acquiring a copy of the 1973 @pelicanbooks edition of Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, all this week's quotes will be taken from the pioneering 1952 book
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A skill is only an aspect of a man, and yet, at times, it can seem to comprehend that man's whole being
- Culture and Society, 1958
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The strongest barrier to the recognition of human cultural activity is this immediate and regular conversion of experience in to finished products
- #Marxism and Literature, 1977
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Are we to understand 'culture' as 'the arts', as 'a system of meanings and values', or as a 'whole way of life', and how are these to be related 10 'society' and 'the economy'?
- Marxism and Literature, 1977
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It's common to see literature defined as 'full, central, immediate human experience',usually with an associated reference to 'minute particulars'
By contrast, 'society' is often seen as essentially general and abstract: the summaries and averages
- Marxism and Literature, 1977
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The two dominant tendencies of bourgeois cultural studies - the sociology of the reduced but explicit 'society' and the aesthetics of the excluded social remade as a specialized 'art' - support & ratify each other in a significant division of labour
- Marxism & Literature, 1977
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**All this week's quotes are taken from Raymond Williams's seminal 11977 text 'Marxism and Literature', which examines the place of literature within Marxist cultural theory
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I meant to get a photo and show you russ. (Didn’t) At a recent church restoration visit I went to, llangua near pandy, the team @jonesandfraser found two medieval handballs in the walls. Suggestion from a version of Etons fives that was played.
Maybe handball links ?
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Great reception to the ideas of @CymunedoliCyf at @Plaid_Cymru’s conference. It’s about strengthening communities through asset building - community ownership of the means of production. And in so doing, building what @RaymondKeywords called Real Independence
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In the socialist tradition, [the word] democracy continued to mean popular power, a state in which the interests of the majority of the people were paramount and in which these interests were practically exercised and controlled by the majority
- Keywords, 2nd ed., 1983
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Housing clearance and housing shortage are related to the altered distribution of human settlement which has followed from a set of minority decisions about where work will be made available, by the criteria of profit and internal convenience
- The Country and the City, 1973
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l owe personal thanks to John Fekete and. over many years, to Edward Thompson and Stuart Hall. The book could not have been written without the unfailing co-operation and support of my wife
- introduction to #Marxism and Literature, 1977