William Morris
*planted: 24/07/2021last tended: 10/10/2022
Was inspired by the Paris Commune.
William Morris (1834-1896) was a British artist, activist and communist. He inspired the arts and crafts movement, founded the Socialist League, and played a major role in the League’s newspaper The Commonweal.
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William Morris, one of the wealthiest men in Victorian England, spent his life translating Viking sagas, weaving, writing, and fighting for a socialist revolution
Friedrich Engels once mocked William Morris as a ‘sentimental socialist’, an insult Morris wore as a badge of honour (‘I am a sentimentalist … and I am proud of the title
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