Journal article
THE UTOPIAN COMMUNISM OF WILLIAM MORRIS
History of political thought, Vol.7(3), pp.489-510
12/01/1986
Abstract
Anarchists and Marxists have both made efforts to identify William Morris's political views with their own, and in each case Morris's latitude lends some persuasion to the claim. His Socialist Diary of 1887, Commonweal notes and editorials of the period and vast private correspondence all testify to his many efforts at mediation between Socialist League parliamentarians and anarchists. His theoretical interests ranged from the 'orthodox' Marxism of E.B. Bax, through the indigenous theories of John Carruthers' The Political Economy of Socialism, to the ideas of Peter Kropotkin and other contemporary anarcho-communist writers. In this essay we will characterize Morris as a complex but deeply consequential Utopian communist, and briefly compare some of his views with those of Marx, Kropotkin, E.F. Schumacher, Raymond Williams and Rudolf Bahro.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- THE UTOPIAN COMMUNISM OF WILLIAM MORRIS
- Creators
- Florence BoosWilliam Boos
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- History of political thought, Vol.7(3), pp.489-510
- ISSN
- 0143-781X
- eISSN
- 2051-2988
- Publisher
- IMPRINT ACADEMIC
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/1986
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398821602771
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