News from Nowhere
*- A
- book
- Author
- William Morris
Morris wrote his novel as a rebuttal to Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, allowing the two to debate the future of socialism as social engineers
Like Neurath, Morris recognized that utopia was hardly an impractical romance to be discarded by tough-minded revolutionaries, but rather a necessary part of the practical work to realize socialism
The importance of rest is why Morris so vehemently opposed Bellamy’s hyper-mechanized and consumerist ‘cockney paradise
1. Elsewhere
1.1. In my garden
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