EP Thompson, William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary
Skipped a lot of this. Who would write a book about William Morris and dedicate 300 pages to obscure socialist sects and a couple of paragraphs to News from Nowhere? Very dated and accepts orthodox Marxist analysis and attempts to place Morris firmly in the Marxist camp, as if he gave a stuff about political or economic theory.
'Even supposing I did not understand that there is a definite reason in economics, and that the whole system can be changed, I for one would be a rebel against it.'
'Wherever the aspirations for life stirred among the workers - the clear-headed hatred of capitalism, the thirst for knowledge, beauty and fellowship - the Socialist converts might be won.'
'The idle singer of an empty day'
'Give me love and work - these two only.'
'No man is good enough to be another's master.'
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