Seven lectures from the years when the designer and poet threw himself into the socialist movement. Morris explains what he means by revolution, traces the decay of feudal England, distinguishes Whigs, Democrats and Socialists, and argues in Useful Work Versus Useless Toil that labour under commerce has been stripped of pleasure, so that art itself cannot flourish until the basis of society changes.
Clear, passionate and still provocative, these talks are the essential companion to News from Nowhere. Download the free EPUB.