Upton Sinclair's 1923 utopian novel Millennium portrays a post-apocalyptic world where most survivors form a Co-operative Commonwealth
- Tom Monto
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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 While most are hidebound by dogmas and outdated traditions, a few who are hardy and young leave to create a utopian "Cooperative Commonwealth."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.
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