"William Morris – a Marxist for our time", an online pamphlet

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William Morris

For many more articles on William Morris, see here.
For a longer introductory piece, see here.


William Morris is probably best known to most people these days as the creator of kitsch Victorian wallpaper designs. Morris was certainly a prominent nineteenth century artist, poet and all round polymath and it is impossible to do justice to the force of his personality.

However the Morris that should matter most to us, and the Morris that has most contemporary relevance is the man who, in his last years, shortly before his 50th birthday became an active revolutionary socialist and remained so to the end of his tumultuous life. Morris’ Marxism and his prescient views on socialist ecology are the subjects of this appreciation.

1) William Morris: a political life
2) The political commitment of William Morris
3) Morris on capitalism and class struggle
4) Morris on working class self emancipation
5) Morris on working class political representation
6) Morris on the trade unions
7) Morris on the state and revolution
8) Morris on parliament and bourgeois parties
9) What sort of socialist was Morris?
10) Morris was a revolutionary socialist
11) Morris – from conservationism to socialist ecology
12) Morris on poetry, art and nature
13) Morris infused his socialism with ecology
14) Morris on the nature – society nexus
15) Morris on the causes of ecological degradation
16) Morris on the working class as the agent of socialist ecology
17) Morris on work under socialism
18) Morris on machinery and workplace safety
19) Morris on energy
20) Morris on transport
21) Morris on town and country
22) Morris on housing and living conditions
23) Morris on lifestyle politics
24) The significance of Morris’ socialist ecology

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