Crossing the ‘River of Fire’: The Socialism of William Morris by Hassam Mahamdallie
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Also back in print this winter: Crossing the ‘River of Fire’: The Socialism of William Morris by Hassam Mahamdallie (New Edition), £9.99
An article on Morris from the same author that appeared in an old issue of the ISJ along the same lines as the book: http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1996/isj2-071/mahamdallie.htm
Book review from Socialist Standard here:http://www.myspace.com/socialiststandard/blog/438301718For some reason this (and another book review) don't appear in the html on-line version.
ALB wrote:For some reason this (and another book review) don't appear in the html on-line version.If you have the texts for these this can soon be rectified.
DJP wrote:If you have the texts for these this can soon be rectified.Sent you the Morris review. The other one, on Chavism, will have to be scanned (unless you can copy it from the on-line PDF version).This passage from Morris from the January 1887 Commonweal, quoted in both the book and the review, is a fine statement of the socialist case on war:
Quote:Meantime if war really becomes imminent our duties as socialists are clear enough, and do not differ from those we have to act on ordinarily. To further the spread of international feeling between workers by all means possible; to point out to our own workmen that foreign competition and rivalry, or commercial war, culminating at last in open war, are necessities of the plundering classes, and that the race and commercial quarrels of these classes only concern us so far as we can use them as opportunities for fostering discontent and revolution;. that the interests of the workmen are the same in all countries and they can never really be the enemies of each other; that the men of our labouring classes, therefore, should turn a deaf ear to the recruiting sergeant, and refuse to allow themselves be dressed up in red and be taught to form a part of the modern killing machine for the honour and glory of a country in which they have only a dog's share of many kicks and a few halfpence, – all this we have to preach always, though in the event of imminent war we may have to preach it more emphatically.Hi there,The missing reviews are both online now -http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2000s/2008/no-1250-october-2008/book-reviewsThanks,Robert
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