Does Bellamy challenge Spencer(conversation/paper)

As the century came to a close, simplistic populist solutions espoused by men like William Jennings Bryan were increasingly overshadowed by progressive reformers who brought about new regulations, called for an end to child labor, demanded equality for women and, in more progressive societies like Germany and England, provided workers with universally free education, social security, and minimal guaranteed medical care. While Bellamy may have been a dreamer, his dreams seemed to become increasingly possible. The world, despite the continued need for a battling labor movement to fight for each concession, was getting better for all members of western industrializing societies.

As we come to the end of the 1800’s, new voices for change were becoming increasingly loud throughout the industrialized world. Nowhere was this more true than in the United States where Edward Bellamy’s utopian novel became the best seller of the last quarter century, eclipsing every other book except the Bible. From a more practical perspective, Henry D. George was calling for a new approach to economics that would open the door to working people and promised a new means to redistribute wealth without bloody revolutions.