The Open Conspiracy

Description of the book

This book is a blueprint for the world revolution. In this book, the author explores how the world ought to be ordered. Excerpt: The book is, in Wells's words, a "scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its present dangers, uncertainties, and miseries." It proposes that largely as the result of scientific progress, a common vision of a world "politically, socially and economically unified" is emerging among educated and influential people and that this can be the basis of "a world revolution aiming at universal peace, welfare and happy activity" that can result in the establishment of a "world commonweal." This is to be achieved by "drawing together a proportion of all or nearly all the functional classes in contemporary communities to weave the beginnings of a world community out of their selection." This will ultimately "be a world religion.