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The socialist aesthetic can also be as gentle and humanistic as William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris ht

• Perceval 16y ago
  Of course, and part of the rivalry between Frank Lloyd Wright and the Internationalists was FLW's inspiration (among other sources of inspiration) drawn from the Arts & Crafts (which itself drew from the Pre-Raphaelites). That said, FLW's politics were not strictly socialist, but were a complex combination of liberatarian, pacifism, populism, Wisconsin progressive, support for the Wobblies, and anti-semitism. Some argue that he was also close to Kropotkin (an anarchist). This earned him the suspicion of J. Edgar Hoover and a file in the FBI.
  • alexqgb 16y ago
    This comment threat came out of nowhere, HN, and it just made my morning. I had no idea these topics had such currency here. Savvy eclecticism FTW.