# William Morris Was inspired by the [[Paris Commune]]. > William Morris (1834-1896) was a British artist, activist and communist. He inspired the arts and crafts movement, founded the Socialist League, and played a major role in the League’s newspaper The Commonweal. > > – [[The Utopian Internet, Computing, Communication, and Concrete Utopias]] > William Morris, one of the wealthiest men in Victorian England, spent his life translating Viking sagas, weaving, writing, and fighting for a socialist revolution > > – [[Half-Earth Socialism]] > [[Friedrich Engels]] once mocked William Morris as a ‘sentimental socialist’, an insult Morris wore as a badge of honour (‘I am a sentimentalist … and I am proud of the title > > – [[Half-Earth Socialism]]