How Did Walter Crane Unify Socialism

Walter Crane was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children’s book creator of his generation. His work featured some of the more colorful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come. He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts.
He was one artist committed to socialist change. He was interested in constitutional reform. He was inspired by the writings of John Stuart Miller, Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer. He believed that the development of human kind and society would bring about the decline of capitalism and the rise of socialism. Crane was also agreed with John Ruskin’s idea that work should be a necessity but a pleasant one and enjoyed while doing it, but this is ruined by industrialization and the introduction of machines
By dedicating his efforts to ‘the cause’, the artist showed his desire to unify different socialist platforms and union concerns with these cartoons. Crane maintained memberships in socialist organizations as a sign of his belief in the revolutionary power of unity
Designs such as The Worker’s Maypole, first published in Justice to celebrate May Day in 1894, transcended different ideological positions in its post-revolutionary imagery. Dancing workers gracefully interweave ribbons labeled with specific industrial complaints such as ‘Eight Hours’ (as in the duration of the work day) into those that evoke ideals such as ‘Leisure for All and A Life worth Living’. Set within an array of swelling vegetation, the cartoon addresses itself to the viewer in terms of visual abundance. Crane emphasizes the striking liveliness by fusing the maypole with the female form; she wears a Phrygian bonnet and holds a banner inscribed with the