Christopher Kendrick is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. His lecture “Marx, Winstanley, and Morris: Utopian Thinking and Practice in the Communist Manifesto, the Law of Freedom, and News from Nowhere” was given as part of the Fall 2014 Franke Lectures in the Humanities, a series organized in conjunction with “Utopia,” a Yale College seminar taught by John Rogers, Professor of English. This undergraduate seminar presented perspectives on utopian fictions. The lecture considers three communist and socialist texts (Gerrard Winstanley’s “The Law of Freedom in a Platform,” Marx and Engel’s Communist Manifesto, and William Morris’s News from Nowhere) and their connection to utopian politics and narrative strategies. Kendrick analyzes several tensions within Marxist and socialist thought in these three texts, including the relationship of world history to communist revolution, the tension between industrial and small-scale craft labor, and the need for a political party in order to organize revolutionary forces.