Summertime Reading

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William Morris’ Socialist Ideal

“…what I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master’s man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick brain workers nor heart-sick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all – the realisation of the meaning of the word COMMONWEALTH.”

from ‘How I Became A Socialist’ (1894), in News From Nowhere & Other Writings, p.379.

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_{N.B. Morris was ambivalent about just how to pursue the ideal, and was caught, it seems, between the Ruskinian hope of changing the system from the inside-out through moral pedagogy, and the Marxist call for overthrow of the system through bloody revolution.}