Looking backward.

In his introduction , Bellamy explains that while to his readers (supposedly in the year 2000, it may seem impossible to believe, that in the time from whence he came (over a hundred years before) America was an industrialized nation operating according to the principles of capitalism and a certain amount of Social Darwinism. He promises to tell them the truth of what it was like back then, as unbelievable as he’s sure it will seem to their 21st Century minds. Things in the 21st Century, of course, were MUCH better, and all men work for the common good of those around them. The government’s primary job is to coordinate all of this goodwill.