William Morris and the treasures of early socialism
What is the point of studying the history of early socialism?
Maybe the question itself is rather pointless. After all, nothing really needs to have a point…
But I do think that there is a special value in studying the early period of socialist history, prior to the Russian Revolution. I say this because the “common sense” among many socialists in that era is quite different from the way of thinking that has prevailed since then. Above all, the understanding of what socialism itself means changed radically in the subsequent years.
