Letter to the Editors from the April 1976 issue of the Socialist Standard
Morris and Marx
In the article “The Poverty of Sociology” in the January Socialist Standard you say that William Morris had never read Marx. However, this is not so, and I quote from Morris’s How I Became a Socialist: “Well, having joined a Socialist body I put some conscience in trying to learn the economic side of Socialism, and even tackled Marx (in French) though I must confess that, whereas I thoroughly enjoyed the historical part of ‘Capital’, I suffered agonies of confusion of the brain over reading the pure economics of that great work. Anyhow, I read what I would, and will hope that such information stuck to me from my reading . . .”
So Morris certainly read Marx even though he may not have easily understood the economics.
F. Ansell
Goole
Reply:
We accept the correction with thanks.
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