The Great Revolution of 1905; or, The Story of the Phalanx, With an Introductory Account of Civilisation in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century

1893 Hayes, Frederick W[illiam] (1848-1918). The Great Revolution of 1905; or, The Story of the Phalanx, With an Introductory Account of Civilisation in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. London: Robert Forder. Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 4: 165-420. Editor’s notes, 163, 422-30. Rpt. London: Clarion Newspaper Co., 1894. Also published as State Industrialism: The Story of the Phalanx. With an Account of Civilisation in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. London: William Reeves, 1901. Bellamy Library No. 34. C, L, NN, O, PSt

Detailed socialist eutopia describing the development to eutopia with considerable material on the political steps involved. The “Introduction” (Forder v-lxviii/Claeys 169-200/State Industrialism v-lxviii) is a critique of contemporary capitalism or individualism, which is then compared to the preferred collectivism or state industrialism. The author, best-known as a landscape painter, was active in the Fabian Society and the Land Nationalisation Society. See Cecil Reginald Grundy, Frederick William Hayes, 1848-1918. An Appreciation. London: Walker’s Gallery, 1922.