Bellamy's sequel to Looking Backward — the argument he felt the first book left half-made.

Equality

Edward Bellamy · 1897

A decade after Looking Backward sold over a million copies and spawned a real political movement, Bellamy came back to make the argument he felt he'd left incomplete: that political equality is worthless without economic equality behind it. Julian West is still asleep-turned-awake in the year 2000, but this time the conversations with Dr. Leete and Edith go further — into the abolition of money, the critique of Malthus, and a sustained case that formal rights mean little to someone who depends on another for their daily bread. It is less remembered than its predecessor, but it is where Bellamy actually finishes his thought.

38 chapters · 152,677 words · ~11.6 hr read