Raymond Williams

Assorted words from 'the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals' (Cornel West): Raymond Williams (1921-1988)

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@SaulStaniforth @SkyNews have you interviewed anyone from Plaid Cymru?

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@bigfanofmykids anti-Chartist? Wow

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@Mab_Taliesin @AllisonPearson remember when Cymru welcomed all those evacuees* from London and other English cities seeking sanctuary during WWII? Was that a bad thing @AllisonPearson?

*another word for 'refugee', much like 'ex-pat' is another term for migrant

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@JackLloyd_18 @TMacgaillimh because of course a "crypto investor" is going to be in touch with the real world...

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@MichaelG899990 "millions"? Maybe stop sniffing glue

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@bigfanofmykids @AllisonPearson "no taxation without representation" is what the Chartists, rightfully, campaigned for. All those listed above are obliged to pay tax so they should be able to vote

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@JeffGoodwin3 @AllisonPearson Stop telling porkies jeff

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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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A Date with Raymond Williams

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With its sheltering mountains, the Glynmawr valley lay broad and green. To a stranger Glynmawr would seem not a village but just thinly populated farming country

- Border Country, 1960

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In 1791 [Jeremy] Bentham defined the anarchist as one who 'denies the validity of the law...and calls upon all mankind to rise up in a mass, and resist the execution of it', a sense again near that of early [definition of] democrat

- Keywords, 2nd ed., 1983

#anarchism

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There is no single relation between the nature of a society and the character of its literature, but there are significant and possibly significant relations which seem to vary with the actual history

- The Long Revolution, 1961

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For thirty miles he had been able to look back at the mountains, at the blue peaks and the long grey ridge, gradually lowering in the sky. Now, when the last contact had gone, he looked at a different country, flat and open

- Border Country, 1960

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Most of T.S. Eliot's mature work was in drama: in the plays from 'Murder in the Cathedral' (1935) to 'The Elder Statesman' (1958)

- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1968

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**Copy of Border Country in the Marie Curie charity shop in Bracla, Bridgend