A Collectivist Experiment down East: Bradford Peck and the Cooperative Association of America
1947; The MIT Press; Volume: 20; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/362056
ISSN1937-2213
Autores Tópico(s)Political Economy and Marxism
ResumoT YPICAL of two score Utopian novels, collectivist in philosophy, that followed success of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward in late nineteenth century was Bradford Peck's The World a Department Store.' Its distinctiveness lay partly in author's being a prominent Maine merchant who had prospered under system he now condemned. More significant was his refusal to fit accusation that, compared with pre-Civil War zeal for establishing Oneidas and New Harmonies, critics now merely described their ideal societies rather than actually living them. Instead, Peck published his book as initial step in launching a social experiment known as Cobperative Association of America, surprisingly but intrepidly located 'way down East, which just after turn of century so impressed contemporary reformers that B. 0. Flower hailed it as the movement that
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