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that we call working-class, and the high working-class tradition,
leading to democracy, solidarity in the unions, socialism.
(Hoggart and Williams, 1960:28)

Neither Raymond Williams nor anyone else within cultural studies ever
managed to resolve that ‘most difficult bit of theory’. Cultural studies
explored, for much of its life, the terrain of the working class community.
Marxism, for its part, has been obsessively and rightly concentrated on
precisely that ‘high working-class tradition’. Marrying the two approaches
remains an important and fruitful project.

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