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Socialist views

This week I had the good fortune to attend the inaugural event of the Wellington Socialist Society. The society is a newly formed group, and is in federation with the Canterbury Socialist Society, which has been running for some years.

The event, a lecture on the life and legacy of English socialist William Morris, was highly enjoyable and well attended by an engaged audience at the pub Bedlam & Squalor. It was a delight to see such a mix of people engaging with Morris’s ideas and legacy.

The talk was presented by Martin Crick, an expert on Morris. Some of the themes Martin covered included Morris’s ideas about the alienation workers face in the production process (an idea he developed from personal experience independent of Karl Marx), and the relevance of his ecosocialist vision for Aotearoa New Zealand, and the world, today.

I believe the Wellington Socialist Society plans to host talks about once a month on a range of topics related to socialism. I would encourage your readers to look out for these and attend if they can. Angus Crowe, Avalon

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