Looking Backward
Writing Assignment

Looking Backward and the Communist Manifesto are linked by a common theme.  Both offer a thorough critique of capitalist society.  Both were written in a period when the problems of a capitalist society were all too evident, the social dislocation of the Industrial Revolution, the growth of squalid slums and the endemic problem of poverty.   How is Bellamy's critique of capitalism different than the approach taken by Marx?  In a one-two page paper highlight what he sees as two of the most significant problems created by a capitalist system and describe the solution he proposes to create a fairer and more just society.