News from Wuyuxiang (Cambridge History of Political Thought Original Series, Facsimile Edition)

Author: (British) Morris
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Publishing Date: 2003-07-01
Features: News from Nowhere (1890) is the most famous work of one of the greatest British writers and thinkers, William Morris. It is an autopoian picture of a future communist society, drawing on the work of Ruskin and Marx and written in response to what Morris saw as soulless and mechanical visions of socialism. In this work of his last years, Morris distilled many of his leading ideas on politics, art, and society, imagining a world in which capitalism has been abolished by a workers' revolution and nature and society have become beautiful habitations for humanity. In a era that has seen the collapse of state socialism, Morris's damning critique of this conception, and his posing of a powerful alternative, are compelling reasons for paying attention to this classic of British socialism.