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Views on Wealth & Poverty in the Gilded Age APUSH - SPICONARDI
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The Perspectives Social DarwinismGospel of WealthSocial Gospel
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Edward Bellamy & Looking Backward In 1889, Bellamy’s Looking Backward is published The novel promoted socialism (nationalism) by writing of a utopian society in the year 2000 Plot Julian West falls asleep in 1887 and awakes 113 years later Doctor Leete guides Julian through the new America All industries are nationalized An Industrial Army produces and distributes All goods distributed equally to citizens Everyone retires at age 45
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Edward Bellamy & Looking Backward Key Points The state should guarantee economic security to all Freedom was a social condition placed upon interdependence, not autonomy Liberty is not achieved by freeing oneself from governmental restriction Legacy Bellamy’s ideas were deemed radical & deemed as a threat to social order Over 160 “Bellamy Clubs” emerged to discuss and propagate Bellamy’s ideas Influenced reformers, such as the Progressives, and 20 th century intellectuals
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