![]() ![]() Of News from Nowhere in Commonweal was complete, Morris had stood downįrom its editorship and left the Socialist League to form the Hammersmith Parliamentary wing, committed to standing for election. ![]() League, determined that acts of violence could bring about change, and the ![]() Morris stood between the increasingly active anarchist wing of the Socialist By 1890, British socialism was driven by factionalism, based on conflicting ideas of how to bring about the new society. The story works beyond its own context, and reflects on later narratives as well as earlier ones, but it is firmly rooted in the circumstances of its composition and publication. The class system has vanished and hostility between people is reduced to good-tempered teasing or grumbling, except for occasional but significant murders. His alterego, William Guest, arrives in the postrevolutionary world of the future to find everything cleansed, renewed and healed: London, and indeed England, is restored to an idyllic rural state of harmony without the need for laws, prisons or coercion of any kind. News from Nowhere than in any of Morris's other works. He idea that violence can bring about peace is more fully developed in In the following passage from her book on William Morris, Hanson convincingly shows, contrary to much modern criticism, that he believed in violent revolution. ![]()
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