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CCS1A Week 2 - An Unpublished lecture of William Morris - Coggle Diagram
CCS1A Week 2 - An Unpublished lecture of William Morris
Who was the author?
William Morris
What was the thesis/central idea of the text?
To prove that Morris' utopian vision of socialism was superior than that of Fabianist socialism as well as that of capitalism and the regular way of life at the time.
That this utopia was not going to be possible without some form of drastic action, and that the end goal was well worth the measures that have to be taken.
Who is the intended audience?
Active Followers of Fabianism
Potential Socialists
What questions does the author address?
Why Morris' version of socialism better.
What should socialism really entail?
3.Why should people work harder or at all if everyone does the same amount of work?
How do the key parts of the text interrelate
The parts of the text mainly work with each other to answer the concerns that Morris is aware that this party of socialism is likely to have with his movement. They all have a similar purpose, i.e. that they act as the light toward the end of the tunnel. The tunnel that is the transition to a socialist society.
They interrelate in the sense that they share a common goal, which in the commercial world, would essentially be the marketing aspect of his movement. What Morris was attempting at with his speech was effectively selling the benefits of his socialist utopia to a group of nonbelievers to increase a conversion rate to his movement, and thus killing off a competitor. A common tactic used by businesses in the present day and age.
They interrelate in the sense that they share a common goal, which in the commercial world, would essentially be the marketing aspect of his movement. What Morris was attempting at with his speech was effectively selling the benefits of his socialist utopia to a group of nonbelievers to increase a conversion rate to his movement, and thus killing off a competitor. A common tactic used by businesses in the present day and age.
What are the critical parts of the text?
The segment where he talks about his personal experiences and how he had been so burdened by the thought of the less fortunate in the capitalistic world that he was unable to pursue his real work → How his version of socialism was derived from personal experiences and that adoption of socialism is to be from personal experiences rather than arbitrary moments of enlightenment.
Another crucial segment is where Morris talks about the entire breakdown of his version of socialism. I.e. how the roles of society would be broken down into. → This lays out the exact end goal for his movement which he attempts to use to tap into emotions of his audience as the end goals for both movements are similar.
At a later part, he ties in fairly accurate presumptions of the working class person and how his ideal utopia would solve such issues and by doing so, he is further speaking to the emotions of his audience, convincing them that perhaps some form of drastic actions are necessary to help the working class out of this seemingly terrible rut they are in.
He entices people by telling them that by adopting his movement, all that awaits at the end it an amazing utopia where everyone will live happily, getting rid of all the capitalists and monopolists that currently dictate the lives of the working class.
He breaks down the immediate concerns that his audience is likely to have with such a movement, i.e. Why people should be motivated to work, by going into detail that letting the talent work on their own is beneficial for everyone as those who are talented is likely to give back to the community. Rather than rewarding people with material progress, Morris emphasises that people should work for the sake of satisfying their needs and the pleasure of the work itself → Which while is very controversial, is his own attempts at answering said immediate concern.