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100 1 _aMichaelis, Richard,
_d1839-1909
240 1 0 _aLooking further forward. German
245 1 4 _aEin Blick in die Zukunft :
_bEine Antwort auf: Ein Rückblick von Edward Bellamy
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2014
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2014-01-05
508 _aProduced by Jana Srna, Norbert H. Langkau, Norbert Müller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aUtopias -- Fiction
653 _aUtopian fiction
653 _aBellamy, Edward, 1850-1898. Looking backward
653 _aUtopias in literature
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44598
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