We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the workin… - Raymond Williams
" "We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.
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Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh socialist academic, novelist and critic. He was Professor of Drama at the University of Cambridge (1974–1983).
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