With memories of World War I still very much on his mind, in 1935 H.G. Wells wrote “The Open Conspiracy,” which advanced a new approach to the perennial problems of human aggression, national conflict, and political inertia.
This conspiracy, as envisaged by Wells, would be a revolutionary movement that reflected the new spirit of the times. “Never before,” he stated in the opening paragraph, “have the conditions of life changed so swiftly and enormously as they have changed for mankind in the last fifty years.”
Reading 'The Open Conspiracy' by H.G. Wells today one might be forgiven for experiencing a sense of déjà vu.
