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Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism

by Raymond Williams, Robin Gable

Pages: 336

Contributors: Raymond Williams,Robin Gable

Publisher: Verso

Place of Publication: London

Publication Year: 1989

Subjects: Political Culture--Great Britain,Socialism--Great Britain,Great Britain--Politics And Government--20th Century

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Defining a Democratic Culture

Culture is Ordinary: 1958

Communications and Community: 1961

The Idea of a Common Culture: 1968

2: State, Administration and the Arts

The Arts Council 1979

3: Solidarity and Commitment

Why Do I Demonstrate?: 1968

'You'Re a Marxist, Aren't You?': 1975

The Writer: Commitment and Alignment: 1980

Art: Freedom as Duty 1978

4: Resources of Class and Community

Welsh Culture: 1975

The Social Significance of 1926: 1977

The Importance of Community: 1977

Mining the Meaning: Key Words in the Miners' Strike: 1985

5: Beyond Labourism

The British Left: 1965

Ideas and the Labour Movement 1981

An Alternative Politics 1981

Problems of the Coming Period 1983

Socialists and Coalitionists: 1984

6: The Challenge of the New Social Movements

The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament: 1980

Socialism and Ecology 1982

Between Country and City: 1984

Decentralism and the Politics of Place: 1984

7: Redefining Socialist Democracy

The Forward March of Labour Halted?: 1981

Democracy and Parliament 1982

Walking Backwards into the Future 1985

Hesitations Before Socialism 1986

Towards Many Socialisms 1985

The Practice of Possibility: 1987

Raymond Williams: Select Bibliography

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