Morris saw the need for links between revolutionary socialism, art and green politics as well as Darwinian ideas.
As a socialist and an artist Morris opposed war propaganda.
This and his internationalism puts him ahead of both his contemporaries and many present-day socialists.
Morris exchanged his ideas of revolutionary socialism with Engels and though they may not always have agreed he shared platforms with Engels, Eleanor Marx and revolutionary socialists of their day.
The fact that Engels described the author of News from Nowhere as an "imaginative force" is not a criticism of either man.
Popular leaders like Fidel Castro have demonstrated that imagination is an essential and powerful force in revolutionary ideas.
The British road to socialism surely needs Morris and Marx.
Tony Simpson
Honiton
