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Broken Dreams

The Essay The Future's Not What it Used to Be
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Richard Foster investigates two contrasting utopian worlds in novels from the 1880s: caring capitalism in Looking Backward by American author Edward Bellamy and communitarian socialism in William Morris's News from Nowhere.

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