Bellamy's Looking Backward

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As human being are always scare from our present and trying to voice mistakes we have done in the past. Mankind is always trying to predict the future in a way that would his present. As in “looking backward” Bellamy tried to imagine how the future would be. In his book he presented different kind of scientific field for example physics, economic, and social science. The Author tried to prove that his system would work better than the current system. Also he predicted new invention based on the technology in his time and the path it is going for. Bellamy believed in the utopian society and wished for a prefect society. The same believes that linain and hitler believed.

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Some scholar claims that the civil war and the Russian monarchy inspired him to believe in social system. “The Civil war, which inspired Bellamy to believe that the Union could be saved from subsequent internecine economic anarchy too, has been followed by divisive wars this century that might well have silenced the utopianist. Russia, the most conspicuous of the century's collectivist societies, has proved a smashing failure”(Glob and mail). Based on these historical events middle class and lower class did not like the capitalism and preferred socialism so they would be equal to upper class.
The author wake up in 2000 and discover the new world and how socialism turned to be a great system for everyone. Bellamy presented his system in a different which attract all type of people. “Bellamy avoided the s word by euphemistically calling his system nationalism instead, since socialism suggested to him "the odor of petroleum and strange sexual practices." Nationalism benignly mixes Christianity's golden rule and capitalism's economies-of-scale.”( golb).
. Socialism as presented by Karl Marx entailed the struggle of the working class to wrest power from the capitalists to remake society for the good of all, so Bellamy voided aw the use of the word ‘socialism’ for his futuristic society, let alone any violent overthrow of the status quo(justice). He tried to prove that society could change without

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