An 'Impossibilist' Socialist?

An 'Impossibilist' Socialist?
An 'Impossibilist' Socialist?

An 'Impossibilist' Socialist?
William Morris and the
Politics of Socialist Revolution
versus Social Reform
Colin Skelly

Submitted by jondwhite on April 17, 2018

In a recent article in the Journal of the William Morris Society it has been argued that the anti-parliamentary socialism of the Socialist League (SL) and Morris in particular divided revolutionary socialists from the left and led to a predominantly non-revolutionary Labour party in Britain.’ Here I will argue rather the opposite, that Morris represented part of a political trend that propagated revolutionary aims against a rival stream of political development that culminated in the formation of the Labour party.

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