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Page 53
... Marxist or an illiberal and intolerant one . The novel is still pre - eminently about free in- dividuals , even if one wants to adjust the focus somewhat so as to stress the competitiveness that their freedom necessarily involves ...
... Marxist or an illiberal and intolerant one . The novel is still pre - eminently about free in- dividuals , even if one wants to adjust the focus somewhat so as to stress the competitiveness that their freedom necessarily involves ...
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... Marxist one . One also needs to ask what the depersonalised ' human actions ' are which Mr Anderson refers to , if ... Marxists , of an older and more humane stamp , such as Lukács and Ernst Fischer . A world in which there are no ...
... Marxist one . One also needs to ask what the depersonalised ' human actions ' are which Mr Anderson refers to , if ... Marxists , of an older and more humane stamp , such as Lukács and Ernst Fischer . A world in which there are no ...
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... Marxists in using the word ' ideology ' . It does not come easily to English lips , though it has respectable ... Marxist ' explanation ; in later versions the relations between the economic base and the cultural superstructure ...
... Marxists in using the word ' ideology ' . It does not come easily to English lips , though it has respectable ... Marxist ' explanation ; in later versions the relations between the economic base and the cultural superstructure ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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