![]() ![]() It’s a mimsywimsy Hallmark greeting card society where miraculously everyone is good looking, cheerful, eager to help milk all the llamas or do some strenuous haymaking at the drop of a 14th century hat– the industrial revolution has been abolished along with the concept of nationality (“imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do, nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too”). Well, I’m sorry to say that Morris communism turns out to be a version of the worst song John Lennon ever wrote. Well, never mind how he did it, what’s the result like? This ideal society. ![]() Yes! Ha ha, I wonder where I got that idea from. ![]() As usual with these utopia novels, this is not really a novel but an essay in the form of a novel, mostly in dialogue. So Mr Morris was taking on the tough job of describing what a pure Communist society would be like, something that Karl himself put into the Too Difficult box. Some of those more enlightened men who were then called Socialists, although they well knew, and even stated in public, that the only reasonable condition of society was that of pure Communism such as you now see around you No, - when he describes the revolution of 1952 he says it was led by In William Morris’s cutesy-communist-glazed-eyes-dreamy-pastoral world everyone would have beautifully hand-carved shelves with 14th century designs. Well some people don’t have any shelves at all. Or you could develop powers like Johnny 5 My version of utopia would be to have the time to read all these books I bought. ![]()
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