{"id":396015,"date":"2019-02-17T02:10:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T01:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-left-looks-backward-again\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T02:10:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T01:10:15","slug":"the-left-looks-backward-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-left-looks-backward-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left Looks Backward (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The so-called Green New Deal that was recently posted as a congressional Resolution and endorsed by many high-profile Democrats is essentially a twenty-first century version of the 1888 utopian novel, Looking Backward<\/em>, by the Marxist-inspired writer Edward Bellamy.\u00a0 The main character of the novel, one Julian West, falls asleep for 113 years and awakes in the year 2000 delighting in the fact that America had been turned into a socialist utopia.\u00a0 A major theme of the novel is that all the evils of society can be eradicated by more-or-less totalitarian government controls, mandates, and regulations.\u00a0 That is also the theme of the Green New Deal.<\/p>\n

In Bellamy\u2019s utopia private property is abolished and all industry is nationalized. \u00a0Government guarantees \u201cjobs for everyone,\u201d as does the Green New Deal. \u00a0Education is \u201cfree\u201d (another Green New Deal promise) and everyone is paid the same by the government, the sole employer.\u00a0 Special efforts are made to assure that men and women are all paid the same. \u00a0This is another key point of the Green New Deal. \u00a0Everyone retired at age 45 with a good taxpayer-funded pension.<\/p>\n

Numerous Edward Bellamy Societies sprung up, established by socialist intellectuals of the day such as John Dewey, who founded the Edward Bellamy Society of New York.\u00a0Looking Backward<\/em><\/a> also spawned numerous small socialist communes, all of which collapsed in failure \u2013 a warning sign of what would become of twentieth-century socialism everywhere.
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Bellamy did not want to use the word \u201csocialism\u201d to describe his scheme, for most Americans considered it to be dangerous, destructive, and un-American.\u00a0 They…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The so-called Green New Deal that was recently posted as a congressional Resolution and endorsed by many high-profile Democrats is essentially a twenty-first century version of the 1888 utopian novel, Looking Backward, by the Marxist-inspired writer Edward Bellamy.\u00a0 The main character of the novel, one Julian West, falls asleep for 113 years and awakes in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}