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Expectations for the Millennium American Socialist Visions of the Future
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Peter H. Buckingham
Book Code: GM1670
ISBN: 0-313-31670-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31670-8
208 pages, photographs
Greenwood Press
Publication: 2/28/2002
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in American History
Series Number: 192
Reviews:
  • Fascinating reading about little-known efforts.
    —Future Survey May 2002     August 2002
  • US historians explore the alternative visions for society offered by socialists at the beginning of the 20th centry. Among the topics are Edward Bellamy's socialism as applied Christianity and the kingdom of God as cooperative commonwealth, the new women in the fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Jack London and visions of gender, the New South and racial reconciliation, and the Industrial Workers of the World.
    —Reference & Research Book News
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Promise of a Better Future by Robert S. Fogarty
  • An Optimistic Millennialism: Edward Bellamy's Vision of Socialism as "Applied Christianity" by Jacob H. Dorn
  • Socialist Expectations and the "New Woman" in the Utopian Fiction of Edward Bellamy Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Jack London by Francis R. Shor
  • The Kingdom of Gos as Cooperative Commonwealth: Socialist Christians, the Millennial Ideal and the State by Jacob H. Dorn
  • Social Democratic Millennium: Visions of Gender by Sally M. Miller
  • Visions from the "Beautiful Trinity": The Dawning of the Cooperative Commonwealth in the Popular Socialist Press by Peter H. Buckingham
  • A Utopian Frontier in the New South by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
  • "Our Political Faith is Socialism, Our Religious Faith is the Latter-day Saints": Socialists Mormons and their Millennial Vision in the Early Twentieth Century by John R. Sillito and John S. McCormick
  • William English Walling's Enduring Vision of Racial Reconciliation by Jack Stuart
  • The IWW Vision: Building a New Society Within the Shell of the Old by Dan Georgakas
  • Commentary by Herbert Shapiro
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2001023306
LCC Class: HX86
Dewey Class: 335
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