MARXIAN REFLECTIONS IN NEWS FROM NOWHERE BY WILLIAM MORRIS
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In this paper I will provide an analysis of William Morris’s News from Nowhere, which is usually considered to be a utopian fantasy, and I will especially try to show how wide and deep William Morris’s knowledge of Marx’s and Engels’s thought was. News from Nowhere is, first of all, a ‘political act’, but it can also be seen, on the one hand, as a strong criticism of the Victorian Age, and, on the other, as a Tendenzroman, since it prefigures, although with some inconsistency and naivety and perhaps with too much optimism, what should be the new Communist society.
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