Equality: Utopian Classic!

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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Sep 24, 2009 - Socialism - 340 pages
Utopian Classic! This marvelous book is the sequel to Bellamy's "Looking Backward", his utopian novel of several years earlier, where a young man wakes up in a utopian year 2000, where all social ills are solved. This novel continues the story of this utopian vision. Whether you're a socialist or libertarian, this is an amazing example of this genre. Bellamy's utopian novel of a world of near-perfect cooperation and prosperity. Bellamy's view of corporations, banks & religion in the new utopian world are different than normally found in utopian fiction and intriguing none the less - at times equally horrifying and fascinating. Warning: Some will find the living, social and sexist perspectives politically incorrect. A thought provoking & entertaining book and a must-read for those interested in utopian/dystopian philosophy, sociology, politics, & religion. According to Erich Fromm, it is "one of the most remarkable books ever published in America." Full and Complete edition.

About the author (2009)

It is as a romantric Utopian rather than a novelist or profound thinker that Edward Bellamy is remembered and read today. While working as a journalist in Springfield, Massachusetts, he began to write novels and later short stories but did not achieve much success until the publication of Looking Backward (1888). The hero of this fantasy falls asleep in 1887 and awakens in the year 2000 to find himself in a humane scientific and socialistic utopia. After selling fewer than 10,000 copies in its first year, Looking Backward became enormously popular. Clubs were formed to promote Bellamy's social ideas, and he became a leader of a nationalist movement, crusading for economic equality, brotherhood, and the progressive nationalization of industry. Americans as diverse as Thorstein Veblen and John Dewey have been influenced by Bellamy's suggestion that the products of industrial energy, intelligently organized, could be used to obtain a nobler future. His The Religion of Solidarity (1940), long out of print, is again available.

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