News From Nowhere
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William Morris
William Morris is well-known as a textile designer but his friendship with Eleanor Marx and Frederick Engels tends to have been glossed over, as was his enthusiastic support for Marx's ideas on the question of Alienation resulting from mechanisation. This latter question finds expression in Morris's own ideas on the need to end the false division between craft and design and his belief that useful objects should be made to last and to be beautiful - as opposed to the capitalist concept of built-in obsolescene. News From Nowhere presents his vision of a future socialist society following a Revolution in Great Britain that condemns the Houses of Parliament to. ... Oh dear - it is probably as well if I leave you to find out for yourself dear reader. Published in support of the Working Class Movement Library in Salford.
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Author
William Morris
Pages
172
Publisher
Lulu.com
Published Date
2013-06-16
ISBN
1291457682 9781291457681
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"SPOILERS AHEAD
Ah, a utopia! I felt the calm I imagine pervades the future’s atmosphere.
I felt the story dragged a bit toward the middle when Old Hammond was explaining the societal breakdown and rebuilding to our dear guest, which I’m sure Morris would roll in his grave to hear. I also wish the ending was a bit more definitive in its answer of dream versus temporary time travel and that we circled back to our Chapter 1 narrator, but overall I enjoyed this."
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Kayla Randolph