The colonial process [within the British Isles] has become part of the long settlement which is idealised as Old England or the natural economy: the product of centuries of successive
penetration and domination
- The Country and the City, 1973
Basically, the poverty and suffering which reached a critical level after 1815 were the consequence of the establishment of a capitalist order in farming
- The Country and the City, 1973
In most description and analysis, #culture and society are expressed in an habitual past tense
- Marxism and Literature,1977
Poor people and vagrants, the casualties of a changing rural economy, or the hard-pressed or ambitious seeing in London some escape from their sub-ordinate destiny, were the explicit objects of exclusion from the developing city
- The Country and the City, 1973
Efficiency must never be reduced to a monetary criterion, or be a simple criterion by gross commodities. Efficiency is the production of a stable economy , an equitable society and a fertile world
- Between Country and City, 1984
By the 1960s, #Britain had become a rather weak member in the second rank of capitalist powers, increasingly dominated by United States capital but still dominating the economies of a group of small and far less developed countries
- #MayDay Manifesto 1968, 1968
War, famine, work, traffic, politics. To see no ethical content or human agency in such events, or to say that we cannot connect them with general meanings, & especially with permanent and universal meanings, is to admit a strange and particular bankruptcy
- Modern Tragedy, 1966
A car drew in to the pavement, a few yards in front of him. Two men got out and stood talking to the driver. He heard the sharp Welsh accents even before he distinguished the words
- Second Generation, 1964
Most people spend more time watching various kinds of drama than in preparing and eating food
- Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 2nd ed., 1990
LUKE: What we have really to face is how all this happened, how we became strong.
MARK: It was not only Koba. In many ways he made us weaker.
LUKE: But in other ways stronger
- Koba, 1959
A strong residual sense of anarchist as this kind of terrorist (in the language, with terrorism, from C18) has not been forgotten, though it is clearly separate from the mainstream anarchist movement
- Keywords, 2nd ed., 1983
'Theory' has an interesting development and range of meanings, and a significant distinction from (later an opposition to) 'practice'
- Keywords, 2nd ed., 1983
By emphasizing this long-term aid, and creating its effective conditions, leaders of developing countries, and socialists in the developed countries, can begin to give aid its essential meaning, and take it out of the context of capitalist trade & power
- May Day Manifesto, 1968
Evans, however, became a Director of the American-funded Community Politics Trust: a liberal rat-trap, if ever there was one, picking up young radicals just when they needed a settled income
- The Volunteers, 1978
[Herbert Spencer] opposed state aid to the poor on the grounds that this would preserve the weaker and less successful members of the race
- Social Darwinism, 1973 based on a 1972 lecture at Institute of Contemporary Art
'Widowers' Houses' ('slum-landlordism') need not detain us; it is not [Bernard] Shaw at his best. It is a crude intrigue melodrama, mechanically contrived to allow Lickcheese, the rent-collector, to be explicitly rhetorical about slums
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
The landscape of childhood never disappears, but the waking environment is adult: the street, the committee, the long, quiet library, the file of revised manuscript, the books shifting under the arm as you run for the crowded bus
- Border Country, 1960
The strategy [for the Left] is all still to be found, but what blocks it is this old model of creating a relatively powerful, united Britain with a 'successful' sovereign econony. That, I think, is what history has ruled out
- The Practice of Possibility in The New Statesman, 1987
People, including Richard Hoggart, refer to "working-class speech". There is of course no such thing: the only class speech in Britain is that of the middle and upper classes; the remaining variations are regional
- Working Class Culture, Universities & Left Review, 1957
Irish history had broken into revolution, a war of liberation and civil war by the time [Sean] O'Casey began to write for the Abbey Theatre. His first acted play, The Shadow of a Gunman (1923), is a response to this experience of violence
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
Where the workers are smashed there's that much less strength in all the others [countries]. In 4 or 5 years there could be a Fascist Europe and we'd be back to the Dark Ages. No parties, no unions, no political freedoms, and people like you Bert in prison camps
- Loyalties, 1985
[local railway workers] were unionized wage-workers with a perception of a much wider social system beyond the village to which they were linked
Yet at the same time they were tied to the immediate locality, with its particular family farms
- 'Boyhood' in Politics and Letters, 1979
Was I wrong to have referred to Freud mainly in terms of the later works? Surely it is in these that his more general propositions about human history, about the character of civilization, or about the nature of art are to be found?
- Politics and Letters, 1979
When we stress, in [William] Morris, the attachment to handicrafts, we are, in part, rationalizing an uneasiness generated by the scale and nature of his social criticism. Morris wanted the end of the capitalist system and the institution of socialism
- Culture and Society, 1958
The contradictions in what is meant by nationality, and even more by patriotism are now very acute
- Towards 2000, 1983
The aspiration to control the general directions of our economic life is an essential element of democratic growth, but is still very far from being realised
- The Long Revolution, 1961
For we must have power to destroy the things that make war, and we must hate those things with all our souls. The cutting edge of our reasoning power to hate must never be dulled by cloying dreams of universal love
- Twentyone, October 1945
The SS officers would come up to me and say: 'Why did we ever get into this ridiculous war with each other, when it is so clear who the common enemy is?'
- Politics and Letters, 1979
When capital has moved on, the importance of place is more revealed
- Resources of Hope, 1989
