Upton Sinclair's 1923 utopian novel Millennium portrays a post-apocalyptic world where most survivors form a Co-operative Commonwealth

Upton Sinclair's 1907 novel Millennium portrays a post-apocalyptic world where most of the few survivors form a Co-operative Commonwealth.

UPTON SINCLAIR    The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000 

written in 1907, first published in 1924.

Capitalism achieves a peak with the construction of a mega-skyscraper, The Pleasure Palace. During the grand opening of this 100-story edifice, an explosion kills almost everybody in the world. The eleven survivors struggle to live in a society without servants. While most are hidebound by dogmas and outdated traditions, a few who are hardy and young leave to create a utopian "Cooperative Commonwealth."

The others go successively through stormy existences under systems of small-scale slavery, feudalism and industrial capitalism, then most of them leave to join the co-operators outside.

online:

https://ia800508.us.archive.org/20/items/dli.ernet.470309/470309-The%20Millennium.pdf

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