Boston i Londyn na progu XXI wieku: socjalistyczne utopie dobrobytu
Boston and London at the beginning of the 21st century: Socialist utopias of abundance

Author(s): Andrzej Waśkiewicz
Subject(s): 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: utopia; well-being; socialism; industrialization; de-industrialization; Edward Bellamy; William Morris
Summary/Abstract: Th e paper discusses Looking Backward 1887–2000 by Edward Bellamy and News fromNowhere by William Morris, two novels written at the end of the 19th century as utopiasof abundance. In the fi rst one, universal well-being has been ensured by industrializationand social organization under state control. In contrast to the former, in the latter bookthe world has undergone an anti-industrial revolution and has come back to harmonywith nature, with no state coercion. Both visions have infl uenced the popular imaginationat the turn of the 19th century. Th ey exemplify attempts to achieve cultural dominationwhich Antonio Gramsci believes to be the precondition of future socialism.

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