What William Morris thinks about democracy

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English designer, writer and socialist (1834 to 1896); author of Signs of Change.

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   Our readingThe great conflict of the age is no longer absolutism against democracy but mastership against fellowship

   Their wordsNo, it is not Absolutism and Democracy as the French Revolution understood those two words that are the enemies now: the issue is deeper than it was; the two foes are now Mastership and Fellowship.

   ↗Signs of Change: Seven Lectures (1888; 1896 edition)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book