Equality

Edward Bellamy

• Publisher: Mint Editions
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781513293837
• eBook ISBN: 9781513293837
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Literatur Allgemein

Equality (1897) is a novel by Edward Bellamy. The sequel to Bellamy's bestselling novel Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888) is a product of decades of work on the socialist theories that captivated thousands of Americans and inspired the formation of the People's Party. Although Bellamy died before his vision could be realized, many of the ideas that circulate in Equality —including vegetarianism, feminism, and the abolition of private capital—continue to inform left-wing politics today. "He learned that there were no longer any who were or could be richer or poorer than others, but that all were economic equals. He learned that no one any longer worked for another, either by compulsion or for hire, but that all alike were in the service of the nation working for the common fund, which all equally shared…" After a century in a hypnosis-induced coma, Julian West emerges to a fundamentally different world. Shocked at first, he soon understands that the changes made to the American economy at the tail end of the Gilded Age were not only just, but entirely necessary. In this sequel to Looking Backward, 2000-1887, Bellamy provides more detail on the theories which informed the construction of a revolutionary socialist utopia in the United States. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Edward Bellamy's Equality is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• I. A Sharp Cross-Examiner
• II. Why the Revolution did not Come Earlier
• III. I Acquire A Stake in the Country
• IV. A Twentieth-Century Bank Parlor
• V. I Experience A New Sensation
• VI. Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense
• VII. A String of Surprises
• VIII. The Greatest Wonder Yet—Fashion Dethroned
• IX. Something that had not Changed
• X. A Midnight Plunge
• XI. Life the Basis of the Right of Property
• XII. How Inequality of Wealth Destroys Liberty
• XIII. Private Capital Stolen from the Social Fund
• XIV. We Look Over my Collection of Harnesses
• XV. What We Were Coming to but for the Revolution
• XVI. An Excuse that Condemned
• XVII. The Revolution Saves Private Property from Monopoly
• XVIII. An Echo of the Past
• XIX. “Can A Maid Forget her Ornaments?”
• XX. What the Revolution did for Women
• XXI. At the Gymnasium
• XXII. Economic Suicide of the Profit System
• XXIII. “The Parable of the Water Tank”
• XXIV. I Am Shown all the Kingdoms of the Earth
• XXV. The Strikers
• XXVI. Foreign Commerce Under Profits; Protection and free Trade, or Between the Devil and the Deep Sea
• XXVII. Hostility of A System of Vested Interests to Improvement
• XXVIII. How The Profit System Nullified the Benefit of Inventions
• XXIX. I Receive an Ovation
• XXX. What Universal Culture Means
• XXXI. “Neither in this Mountain nor at Jerusalem”
• XXXII. Eritis Sicut Deus
• XXXIII. Several Important Matters Overlooked
• XXXIV. What Started the Revolution
• XXXV. Why the Revolution Went Slow at First but Fast at Last
• XXXVI. Theater-Going in the Twentieth Century
• XXXVII. The Transition Period
• XXXVIII. The Book of the Blind
• A Note About the Author
• A Note from the Publisher