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Looks at the history and content of Raymond Williams' Culture and Society along with other retrospects and their influence upon English cultural criticism relating to this work. Marx initially influenced Williams, was abandoned by him, and then again was a part of his viewpoint. Discusses the nature of the work via translations, and via his own work commenting on Marcuse, with whom he agrees, yet often finds fault with, such as his unification of fascism and liberal culture. Strong points occur when considering Culture and Society in relation to communism and how the Communist Party took to this work. Further, found English Romanticism both a source of and bothersome to English Marxism. Examines other aspects of Williams' work, such as his comment on Burke's notion of nation, the familial cornerstone of society, his influence by Lukacs and that author's work on class consciousness. Furthermore, shows the legacy that Williams left behind, as with his ideas of English Romanticism and their influence upon English Marxism, and critiques of Christopher Caudwell. Considerations of classes taught on multiculturalism and their makeup, particularly from the influence liberal ideas have had, captures much of the final part of the article. S. Fullmer

How far can the path from Thatcher to Blair be written as a dynamic of Ukanian constitutional involution, or devolution? Francis Mulhern questions whether classes can be so quickly bundled off-stage. Is it possible to speak of nations -- English, Scottish, Irish or any other -- as political communities, without social or ideological dispositions? Adapted from the source document.

This volume brings together sixteen interviews from New Left Review in a group portrait of intellectual engagement in the twentieth century and since. Four generations of intellectuals discuss their political histories and present perspectives, and the specialized work for which they are, often, best known. Their recollections span the century from the Great War and the October Revolution to the present, ranging across Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Psychoanalysis, philosophy, the gendering of private and public life, capital and class formation, the novel, geography, and language are among the topics of theoretical discussion. At the heart of the collection, in all its diversity of testimony and judgement, is critical experience of communism and the tradition of Marx, relayed now for a new generation of readers. Included here are interviews with Georg Lukács, Hedda Korsch, Jean-Paul Sartre, Dorothy Thompson, Ernest Mandel, Jiéri Pelikan, Luciana Castellina, Lucio Colletti, K. Damodaran, Noam Chomsky, David Harvey, Adolfo Gilly, João Pedro Stédile, Asada Akira, Wang Hui and Giovanni Arrighi