WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
The open conspiracy cover

The open conspiracy

Chapter 1: THE OPEN CONSPIRACY
Open in WeRead

About This Book

The text argues for an organised, transparent movement of committed people to establish a global commonweal, proposing a restated, objective religion rooted in subordination of self and collective responsibility. It outlines aims, structure, and methods, including explanation and propaganda, constructive social work, and alliances with existing progressive movements, while insisting on heterogeneity and moral reorientation. Chapters examine practical obstacles: entrenched institutions, cultural resistances in less industrialised regions, and internal human frailties, and discuss building creative homes, schools, and mechanisms for international coordination. The tone is prescriptive, sketching hazards and strategies for gradual global cooperation and social reconstruction.

THE OPEN CONSPIRACY

MR. WELLS HAS ALSO WRITTEN THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ON SOCIAL, RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL QUESTIONS

  • Anticipations (1900)
  • A Modern Utopia
  • The Future in America
  • New Worlds for Old
  • First and Last Things
  • God the Invisible King
  • The Outline of History
  • Russia in the Shadows
  • The Salvaging of Civilisation
  • Washington and the Hope of Peace
  • A Short History of the World
  • The Story of a Great Schoolmaster
  • A Year of Prophesying
  • Democracy Under Revision
  • History
  • Mr. Belloc Objects to the Outline of History
  • The Way the World Is Going