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