William Morris as Revolutionary Socialist
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A researcher for the Marxist Internet Archive is trying to find details of a draft resolution that William Morris sought to propose at the inaugural meeting of the Second International in Paris in 1889 at which he was a delegate for the Socialist League. He explains:
“William Morris proposed a motion committing the Congress to 3 points: that reforms (‘palliative measures’) would not change the position of the working class; that the goal was the abolition of all classes; and this would be achieved by the organized working class seizing power, expropriating the capitalist class, and socializing the means of production. Paul Lafargue and August Bebel worked with Morris to reword this motion to a form they could accept. (…) In the end the motion was quietly dropped so there is no printed version of this.”
Who says Morris was a wishy-washy Green and not a revolutionary socialist?
Williams Morris is not very popular because he was not a reformist It is the same case of Julius Martov who had a clear conception about socialism and he never supported the coup of the Bolsheviks
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