Raymond Williams
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"Raymond Henry Williams" was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books have sold in UK editions alone and there are many translations available. His work laid the foundations for the field of cultural studies and the Cultural materialism (cultural studies)/cultural materialist approach.

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What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

Language is, then, positively a distinctly human opening of and opening to the world: Not just a distinguishable or instrumental but a constitutive faculty.

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

We need to establish better complaint procedures and policies so consumers know what their rights are. They don't know what their rights are.

They tried to kick in my front door and steal my car, ... The gunshots went all through the night.