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Erich Fromm wrote the foreward for the 1960 edition of Looking Backward
'''Edward Bellamy''' a socialist author who, under the title of 'nationalism', brought socialism into the United States.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Heath |first1=Frederic |year=1900 |title=Social democracy red book |publisher=Debs publishing Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46A0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA64 |pages=42 |quote=The American awakening to Socialism began with the appearance of Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward" in 1888, although in 1884 Laurence Gronlund's "Co-operative Commonwealth" was the first book to place the new theory before American readers in a popular way. This had a very fair sale and set many prominent men to thinking along new lines - and among them probably the novelist Edward Bellamy himself. "Looking Backward" was not at all scientific in its conception of Socialism or the probable Socialistic state, but it came as a great message to the American people, nevertheless, and its success was phenomenal. In the succeeding few years over 600,000 copies were sold and for a time it had a record of sales of over 1,000 a day. Still it must be noted that the word Socialism nowhere appeared in the book. Bellamy and his converts at once organized clubs, which, with a cowardice that was perhaps justified, they called Nationalist clubs, and they persisted in calling their Socialism ''Nationalism''.}}</ref>
'''Edward Bellamy''' was a socialist author who, under the title of 'nationalism', brought socialism into the United States.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Heath |first1=Frederic |year=1900 |title=Social democracy red book |publisher=Debs publishing Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46A0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA64 |pages=42 |quote=The American awakening to Socialism began with the appearance of Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward" in 1888, although in 1884 Laurence Gronlund's "Co-operative Commonwealth" was the first book to place the new theory before American readers in a popular way. This had a very fair sale and set many prominent men to thinking along new lines - and among them probably the novelist Edward Bellamy himself. "Looking Backward" was not at all scientific in its conception of Socialism or the probable Socialistic state, but it came as a great message to the American people, nevertheless, and its success was phenomenal. In the succeeding few years over 600,000 copies were sold and for a time it had a record of sales of over 1,000 a day. Still it must be noted that the word Socialism nowhere appeared in the book. Bellamy and his converts at once organized clubs, which, with a cowardice that was perhaps justified, they called Nationalist clubs, and they persisted in calling their Socialism ''Nationalism''.}}</ref>
Following the publication of his book ''Looking Backward'', there began what was called at the time a "Nationalist movement".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Edward Bellamy Megapack: 20 Classic Novels and Stories |publisher=Wildside Press LLC |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KS70AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA9 |year=2013 |pages=9}}</ref> Toward the height of its popularity, there were "no fewer than 162 [[Nationalist Clubs]] in existence."<ref>{{cite book |title=Looking Backwards from 2000 to 1887 (Annotated) |publisher=Bronson Tweed Publishing |pages=142}}</ref> The "nationalist movement" used the word 'nationalism' as a euphemism for the nationalization of industry;<ref>{{cite book |first1=John R. |last1=Shook |title=Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Volume 1 |publisher=A&C Black |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijpj1tB3Qr0C&pg=PA188 |year=2005 |pages=188}}</ref> that is, socialism.
Following the publication of his book ''Looking Backward'', there began what was called at the time a "Nationalist movement".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Edward Bellamy Megapack: 20 Classic Novels and Stories |publisher=Wildside Press LLC |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KS70AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA9 |year=2013 |pages=9}}</ref> Toward the height of its popularity, there were "no fewer than 162 [[Nationalist Clubs]] in existence."<ref>{{cite book |title=Looking Backwards from 2000 to 1887 (Annotated) |publisher=Bronson Tweed Publishing |pages=142}}</ref> The "nationalist movement" used the word 'nationalism' as a euphemism for the nationalization of industry;<ref>{{cite book |first1=John R. |last1=Shook |title=Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Volume 1 |publisher=A&C Black |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijpj1tB3Qr0C&pg=PA188 |year=2005 |pages=188}}</ref> that is, socialism.
Noted marxist [[Erich Fromm]] wrote the foreward for the 1960 edition of ''Looking Backward''<ref>{{cite book |first1=Edward |last1=Bellamy |first2=Fromm | last2=Erich |title=Looking Backward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LZXNRb5IYIC |year=1960 }}</ref>, in which he wrote regarding Bellamy's word choice:
{{cquote|He(Bellamy) called this movement "nationalist," referring by this word both to the nationalization of all means of production and to the fact that only this form of society could bring about the rich flowering of a nation's life.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Dwight D. |last1=Murphey |title=Liberal Thought in Modern America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYUjAQAAIAAJ |year=1987 }}</ref>}}
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==See Also==