I'm not able to speak to your second point; prognostication is not my strength. I do note, though, that Morris and Dolmetsch share a contempt for the common ma

I'm not able to speak to your second point; prognostication is not my strength. I do note, though, that Morris and Dolmetsch share a contempt for the common man as he was, as opposed to as they thought he should be, that might help explain their anti-democratic tendencies. I think they also expected society to be transformed by a renewal of what they imagined were artists' and craftsmen's attitudes towards work and leisure, which they thought would make capitalism obsolete. They didn't imagine a political or violent revolution so much as a revolution in priorities.