Collection Manuscripts by William Morris, English Socialist and Artist, 1834-1896 ...

Works | Biography | Photos | Marxists Internet Archive William Morris How I Became a Socialist - Introduction How I Became a Socialist was first published in Justice, June 16th, 1894. In his last years Morris modified his long-held anti-Parliamentarian position, agreeing that the time had now come for the formation of a Socialist Party. He did not rejoin the Socialist Democratic Federation (S.D.

Works | Biography | Photos | Marxists Internet Archive William Morris Art and Socialism - Introduction Art and Socialism was delivered, as a lecture, to the Leicester Secular Society on January 23rd, 1884. Art and Socialism's outstanding feature is perhaps the stress laid on work as a necessity of human life, not merely as a means of obtaining a livelihood. Morris insists that only Socialism can ...

Works | Biography | Photos | Marxists Internet Archive William Morris How We Live and How We Might Live - Introduction How We Live and How We Might Live was a lecture delivered to the Hammersmith Branch of the Socialist Democratic Federation (S.D.F.) at Kelmscott House, on November 30th, 1884. It was first printed in Commonweal, 1887. Morris sees capitalist society as based on war between ...

Works | Biography | Photos | Marxists Internet Archive William Morris Socialism and Anarchism - Introduction Socialism and Anarchism was first printed as a letter in Commonweal, May 5th, 1889. By this time the Anarchist faction had secured a majority in the Socialist League and the position of Morris was becoming impossible. This letter, a contribution to a discussion then taking place in ...

Forum pictures biography and William Morris books online: Child Christopher, A Dream of John Ball, etc..