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Edward Bellamy was an American author and very influential socialist. He came from a long line of ministers, seeing that his father was a Baptist and minister and so was his father's father. In college he studied law, but then turned to journalism. Although eventually he ditched journalism and turned to writing short stories and novels. Bellamy first realized the harshness of urban poverty when he went on a trip to Germany. It was then when his ideas on how to create a better society started to form. He is famous for his utopian novel "Looking Backward." His novel, which anticipates the future America in the year 2000, influenced the formation of nationalist political movement. It emphasized government control over the economy and the importance of equality, along with influencing the formation of the Nationalist political movement.
 * Edward Bellamy **

Problem: The problem that Edward Bellamy saw was inequality. He believed there was such a lack of freedom among Americans because of the inequalities among them. In Edward's point of view, all the evils of society came from the fact that the economy wasn't correctly controlled, which caused inequalities that lead to crimes occurring. For example, a theft that occurred because a poor man wanted what a rich man acquired easily.

Solution: The solution that Edward Bellamy saw was having a powerful, respected government that could maintain society. In his solution that he wrote about in his novel, there was no money. Since there was no money, this eliminated the need for crimes because there was simply less to fight about because everyone had the same things. All in all, his solution of the government having complete control over the economy eliminated any problems that society would have to face.

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