The Open Conspiracy; Blue Prints for a World Revolution

1928 Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge] (1866-1946). The Open Conspiracy; Blue Prints for a World Revolution. London: Victor Gollancz. U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1928. Serialized without the subtitle in T.P.’s Weekly 9.212 - 10.245 (April 7 - July 7, 1928): 853-54; 856; 891-92; 7-8, 26; 39-40; 75-76; 112, 120; 153-54, 156; 188, 190; 220, 222; 249-51; 280-84; 321, 323; 351-52. Rev. ed. The Open Conspiracy; Blue Prints for a World Revolution. A Second Version of this faith of a modern man made more explicit and plain. London: Hogarth Press, 1930. U.S. ed. of rev. ed. entitled What Are We To Do With Our Lives? Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. Rpt. as The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings. London: Waterlow & Sons, 1933 [In addition to The Open Conspiracy, the volume contains, separately paged, First and Last Things and Russia in the Shadows]; rpt. as What Are We To Do With Our Lives? No. 55 of The Thinker’s Library. London: Watts & Co., 1935 [This ed. includes a page on the movement with an address to which to apply for membership. Annual subscription of 5 shillings brings the monthly bulletin]; and with the subtitle H.G. Wells on World Revolution. Ed. W[alter] Warren Wagar with a “Critical Introduction” by Wagar (1-44) and the corrected text using the 1933 Waterlow & Sons ed. (45-136). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002. See pp. 11-12 of the Wagar ed. for a description of the variations in the various editions. The Wagar text does not include the “Preface” (7-9) or the “Marginal Note” (154-56) from the 1928 ed. L, PSt

Program to bring about the Wellsian eutopia. Here Wells stresses the need for some form of world political control, economic unity, and a limit on population growth.