Looking Backward: Foreward: Utopian Ideals in City Planning - Softcover

Bellamy, Edward

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9781521535615: Looking Backward: Foreward: Utopian Ideals in City Planning

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ISBN 10: 1521535612 ISBN 13: 9781521535615

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

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Bellamy's novel tells the story of a hero figure named Julian West, a young American who, towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up one hundred and thirteen years later. He finds himself in the same location, but in a totally changed world: It is the year 2000 and, while he was sleeping, the United States has been transformed into a socialist utopia. The remainder of the book outlines Bellamy's thoughts about improving the future. The major themes include problems associated with capitalism, a proposed socialist solution of a nationalization of all industry, the use of an "industrial army" to organize production and distribution, as well as how to ensure free cultural production under such conditions.

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