Marx, Morris and Utopia

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Marx, Morris and Utopia: a talk by Dr Gregory Claeys Wednesday 14th November, 7pm Conway Hall Ethical Society This free talk by Dr Gregory Claeys is third in the series Writing Wrongs, curated by Deborah Lavin as part of the Heritage Lottery funded project Victorian Blogging. This talk considers whether, despite Marxism’s well know rejection of earlier Utopian socialism, Karl Marx might be termed a Utopian thinker, and how some of his ideas were adapted but also built upon by the English socialist William Morris in the 1880s and early 1890s. A special focus is Morris’s democratic thought, as expressed in his “Utopian romance”, News from Nowhere (1890). Learn more and book tickets: https://conwayhall.org.uk/event/marx-morris-and-utopia/

 

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