02507cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000110010610000350011724000360015224500850018826400510027330000470032433600260037133700260039733800360042350000310045950801320049052013410062253400450196365300230200865300200203165300490205165300260210085600430212644598UtSlPG20260610134026.0mcr n260607r2014||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7ade2iso639-1 4aHXaPS1 aMichaelis, Richard,d1839-190910aLooking further forward. German14aEin Blick in die Zukunft :bEine Antwort auf: Ein Rückblick von Edward Bellamy 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2014  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2014-01-05  aProduced by Jana Srna, Norbert H. Langkau, Norbert Müller
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http://www.pgdp.net  a"Ein Blick in die Zukunft" by Richard Michaelis is a critical analysis written in the late 19th century. This work serves as a response to Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward," and it explores the implications of communism as proposed by Bellamy, arguing against the effectiveness and moral grounding of such a system. Michaelis presents a cautionary view of proposed societal reforms, emphasizing the potential pitfalls of enforced equality and the loss of personal freedoms.  The opening of the book introduces the narrator, Julian West, who recounts his life and how he fell into a deep sleep that lasted over a century. When he awakens in the year 2000, he learns about the dramatic changes in society, including the abolition of money and the establishment of a "workers' army" regulated by the government. As West adjusts to this new world, he grapples with the implications of these societal changes and the nature of individual liberty, contrasting them with the values of his own time. Through the character of Dr. Leete, he gets a glimpse of the utopian society that Bellamy advocates, but Michaelis uses West's experiences to question the validity and sustainability of such a system, hinting at deeper societal issues lurking beneath the surface of this supposedly ideal society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aUtopias -- Fiction  aUtopian fiction  aBellamy, Edward, 1850-1898. Looking backward  aUtopias in literature40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44598