William Morris

Was inspired by the [[Paris Commune]].

William Morris (1834-1896) was a British artist, activist and communist. He inspired the arts and crafts movement, founded the Socialist League, and played a major role in the League’s newspaper The Commonweal.

– [[The Utopian Internet, Computing, Communication, and Concrete Utopias]]

William Morris, one of the wealthiest men in Victorian England, spent his life translating Viking sagas, weaving, writing, and fighting for a socialist revolution

– [[Half-Earth Socialism]]

[[Friedrich Engels]] once mocked William Morris as a ‘sentimental socialist’, an insult Morris wore as a badge of honour (‘I am a sentimentalist … and I am proud of the title

– [[Half-Earth Socialism]]