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On this day, 3 October 1896, designer, artist and socialist William Morris died of tuberculosis at age 62. In describing his political goals in 1894, he wrote: “a brief sketch of what I am looking forward to as a Communist: to sum up, it is Freedom from artificial disabilities; the development of each man’s capacities for the benefit of each and all. Abolition of waste by taking care that one man does not get more than he can use, and another less than he needs; consequent condition of general well-being and fulness of life, neither idle and vacant, nor over burdened with toil.”
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