Raymond Williams's Resources for Hope.

The article explores writings by socialist beacon Raymond Williams that are resources for hope for a socialist future. Williams fought fascism in World War II and wrote the books "Culture and Society: 1780-1950," which aimed at a radical yet humanistic social theory, and "Border Country" which told the story of the 1926 general strike. He attacked every effort to define culture as a minority-elite concern, urged a deepening of democratic practice and argued for a democratic ethics based on egalitarianism. He wrote books around the themes of political radicalism, industrialization, anti-reductive materialism, nation and state, such as "The Country and the City," "People of the Black Mountains," "Second Generation," "The Long Revolution," "Marxism and Literature" and "The Fight for Manod."