"The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ..."

--Oscar Wilde

Join a discussion on anti-capitalist author Oscar Wilde, featuring presentations by Kristian Williams (Our Enemies in Blue, American Methods) and Allan Antliff (Anarchy and Art, Only a Beginning).

Oscar Wilde is chiefly remembered as a wit, a dandy, and a gay icon; but the depth of his thought and the radicalism of his politics are often forgotten. His aestheticism was more than a flamboyant pose. It represented an entire system of values, from which Wilde critiqued capitalism, the state, and Victorian morality.