Abstract
Socialists’ misgivings about the ‘affluent society’ and suspicions of TV and advertising were also manifest in a dubiety towards newer methods of political communication. Changing styles of political activity, and Labour’s own attempts to modernize its image and approach, offer critical insights into the political culture of socialism in the 1950s. Not least, assumptions, values and instincts are disclosed that seem quite unrecognizable through the dimness of the New Labour project.
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Black, L. (2003). Political Communication. In: The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951–64. Contemporary History in Context Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288249_7
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