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Pretty good, as far as 19th Century socialist utopian fiction is concerned.
It's greatest virtue is that the process whereby Communism arrives isn't by virtue of benevolence on the part of the capitalist class, as in Bellamy's Looking Backwards, but rather through violent, class struggle and upheavals of the state apparatus. This adds an element of realism to Morris's vision, which is lacking in so much of the genre. It is also a point, which Morris had given a lot of thought to and is probably t ...more
It's greatest virtue is that the process whereby Communism arrives isn't by virtue of benevolence on the part of the capitalist class, as in Bellamy's Looking Backwards, but rather through violent, class struggle and upheavals of the state apparatus. This adds an element of realism to Morris's vision, which is lacking in so much of the genre. It is also a point, which Morris had given a lot of thought to and is probably t ...more
Pretty good, as far as 19th Century socialist utopian fiction is concerned.
It's greatest virtue is that the process whereby Communism arrives isn't by virtue of benevolence on the part of the capitalist class, as in Bellamy's Looking Backwards, but rather through violent, class struggle and upheavals of the state apparatus. This adds an element of realism to Morris's vision, which is lacking in so much of the genre. It is also a point, which Morris had given a lot of thought to and is probably t ...more
It's greatest virtue is that the process whereby Communism arrives isn't by virtue of benevolence on the part of the capitalist class, as in Bellamy's Looking Backwards, but rather through violent, class struggle and upheavals of the state apparatus. This adds an element of realism to Morris's vision, which is lacking in so much of the genre. It is also a point, which Morris had given a lot of thought to and is probably t ...more
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