Early in the twentieth century, American socialists dared to
dream of a future based on cooperation rather than competition.
Socialism was a movement broad enough to encompass many points of
view regarding the Red millennium. Socialist women, novelists,
newspaper editors, and civil rights advocates, Christian socialists
and Wobblies strained their eyes to see a future cooperative
Commonwealth.
Edward Bellamy portrayed socialism in the year 2000 for millions
of readers in his novels as applied Christianity. Bellamy and other
utopian novelists, including Jack London and Charlotte Perkins
Gilman, tried to imagine the role of women in the expected new
order. Christian socialists put their faith in a future Kingdom of
God on earth that honored the ideas of Karl Marx. Radical newspaper
editors in Kansas, Missouri, and Texas attempted to lay out the
imagined transition to socialism to their readers in simple,
straightforward language that made the goal seem readily
obtainable. Mormons, disappointed in the changing nature of their
faith, pondered a possible socialist future. Others, such as
William English Walling, worked for a time ahead that was both
socialist and colorblind. Challenging the notion that they had no
concrete vision, this book of essays examines the many ways in
which early 20th century American socialists imagined their
future.
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