William Morris

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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

Half-Earth Socialism

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

Half-Earth Socialism

1. Elsewhere

1.2. In the Agora

1.3. Mentions

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