The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution
1928
The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution
1928
The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution, published in 1928 by H. G. Wells, is a socio-political treatise advocating for a transformative global movement aimed at unifying humanity through science and rational organization. Wells critiques traditional religions and proposes a new unifying purpose based on altruism and communal values. He outlines the concept of an 'Open Conspiracy,' a collaborative effort among diverse organizations to establish a new world order focused on peace, social equity, and human flourishing. This work serves as both a summation of Wells's beliefs and a call to action for a more inclusive global society.
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“In Russia, where”
— H. G. Wells
“The organized world community conducting and ensuring its own progress, requires a deliberate collective control of population as a primary condition.””
— H. G. Wells
“To give oneself religiously is a continuing operation expressed in a series of acts. It can be nothing else. You cannot dedicate yourself and then go away to live just as you have lived before. It is a poor travesty of religion that does not produce an essential change in the life which embraces it.””
— H. G. Wells
“The explanation of why things are is an unnecessary effort in religion. The essential fact in religion is the desire for religion and not how it came about. If you do not want religion, no persuasions, no convictions about your place in the universe can give it to you. The first sentence in the modern creed must be, not "I believe," but "I give myself.””
— H. G. Wells
“The character of the Open Conspiracy will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as wide-spread and evident as socialism or communism. It will have taken the place of these movements very largely. It will be more than they were, it will be frankly a world religion. This large, loose assimilatory mass of movements, groups, and societies will be definitely and obviously attempting to swallow up the entire population of the world and become the new human community.””
— H. G. Wells
“These changes have not come upon our world from without. No meteorite from outer space has struck our planet; there have been no overwhelming outbreaks of volcanic violence or strange epidemic diseases; the sun has not flared up to excessive heat or suddenly shrunken to plunge us into Arctic winter. The changes have come through men themselves.””
— H. G. Wells
“It is impossible for any clear-headed person to suppose that the ever more destructive stupidities of war can be eliminated from human affairs until some common political control dominates the earth, and unless certain pressures due to the growth of population, due to the enlarging scope of economic operations or due to conflicting standards and traditions of life, are disposed of.””
— H. G. Wells
