De l’utopie à la praxis : William Morris et le Guild Socialism
That William Morris belongs to the British socialist tradition is an indisputable fact, but should one decide to try and identify the nature of this eccentric author’s contribution to the emergence of socialism in Great Britain, all certainties tend to fade away. This paper concentrates on Morris’s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique
2004-09-01
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| Series: | Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/3286 |
| Summary: | That William Morris belongs to the British socialist tradition is an indisputable fact, but should one decide to try and identify the nature of this eccentric author’s contribution to the emergence of socialism in Great Britain, all certainties tend to fade away. This paper concentrates on Morris’s use of utopia, on the many occasions when his views clashed with those of the senior members of the budding socialist movement and finally on the distinctively Morrissian hue of many of the Guild Socialists’ publications. It will then be possible to bring William Morris’s socialism into focus. |
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| ISSN: | 0248-9015 |