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The New World Order

H.G. Wells

3.66 · Rating details · 151 ratings · 12 reviews

The New World Order is an important book by novelist H. G. Wells and features his belief that it would be beneficial to the world if a new world order ruled the world which would united all the worlds people and at the same time cause war to no longer exist. This is an excellent book for individuals who are interested in reading about H. G. Wells New World Order belief as ...more

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Published May 25th 2007 by Fq Classics (first published 1939)

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Mar 04, 2014 Denis rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: do-not-own

H.G. Wells

This is a review of “Holy Terror” and “A New World Order”.

Rud, was a (not so attractive) baby boy, and later, grew to be a young man who had a remarkable talent of oratory: the gift of gab. He is eventually encouraged to perform public speaking, lecturing and finally, revolutionary speeches.

Through this character, Wells creates a platform for long discourses of his usual themes of social engineering.

Based on previous works, it is evident that Wells is perfectly capable of writing very H.G. Wells

This is a review of “Holy Terror” and “A New World Order”.

Rud, was a (not so attractive) baby boy, and later, grew to be a young man who had a remarkable talent of oratory: the gift of gab. He is eventually encouraged to perform public speaking, lecturing and finally, revolutionary speeches.

Through this character, Wells creates a platform for long discourses of his usual themes of social engineering.

Based on previous works, it is evident that Wells is perfectly capable of writing very entertaining tales and narratives lased with his favoured social themes and morals: “When the Sleeper Awakes” (1899), “A World Set Free” (1914), “The Dream” (1924) and so on, but in this (far too lengthy) work, it seems Wells often forgets he is telling a tale of fiction and digresses far too much (often repetitively) into detailed and technical lectures on the expedition of major global social change.

Inevitably, in this story, the struggle with the acquisition of ultimate power and what is to be done about it, becomes the primary theme of the novel.

I chose to read Well’s, rather short, non-fiction work “A New World Order” believing it might serve as a companion work to “Holy Terror” as it was published just a year later in 1940. I found it odd, that it was in this work, Well’s chose to write his thoughts on an ideal societal system in a more elegant and concise manor. He covered, naturally, the subjects of war, which was coming to a head at the time of this writing, new technologies: steam to the internal combustion engine, the rapid development of the airplane and the global wide telephone which he framed in the context of the “abolition of distance” and he also dealt with the environmental devastation that would come with the growth of mass industrialization. From there he quickly went into his favorite topic: that of the naivety of Marxism vs. that of the equally mucked up version of Capitalism that most of the so called free Western nations have chosen to subscribe to and how with both systems, it most often leads to conflict between the have and have-nots, which then leads to perpetual revolt and so on.

Perhaps much of the dryer content in “Holy Terror” could have been cut out and included into “A new World Order”.

And then again, perhaps it was.

Both books are worth a read if you want to get into the mind of a disgruntle socialist living in the mid twentieth century, longing for the simplicity of the golden age of the late nineteenth century or ready to tear down all we (humanity) has built thus far, for something completely different. ...more

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Mar 17, 2016 Yogy TheBear rated it did not like it · review of another edition

H.G. Wells advocates in this book for nothing more then world socialism. I will give him credit for not being a marxist and for a quite good critique of it,for this he deservs my one star I gaved him.
But Wells is dishonest, he admits the advantages and the material improvments done through the liberal ideas, but creates and atributates to it some bizzar and exagerated disruptive forces that have nothing to do with liberalism, and the outcome is total anihilation, unless we go total socialism. Hi ...more

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Mar 25, 2009 Mohammad rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

The novel "The New World Order", written by H.G.Wells, is a great book that keeps many readers thinking until the end of the book. Throughout the whole novel there is one central theme, which can asks, "Can there be peace among all of the world's people. The entire book is based on one belief, "What if the world was under a new world order, one in which unite the everyone in the world, and at the same time cause war to war to no longer exist?"
But for peace to exist on our modern day society, ...more

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Nov 15, 2016 Jemma rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A great little treatise on the why and how of a world state. It's surprising that this book isn''t better known because it is careful to differentiate between a collective society which really works for everyone and a socialist "utopia" which is stuck in class war and fails partly because it ignores humanity's baser instincts. Perhaps that is why, maybe people like their politics simple and this doesn't accept the right-left split. There is much here to agree with, whatever your political persua ...more

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Nov 21, 2017 Scot León Pfuntner rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Wells considers it an offense against all mankind if capitalists amass wealth by hoarding the Earth's resources for profits. He considers a world collectivist, socialist government the solution to these abusers. However, what he fails to realize is that it's not the underlying system that propagates evil, it is human nature that is evil. Evil people will amass exorbitant wealth through whatever system is given to them. Capitalism and socialism both end up with abusers at the top taking advantage ...more

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Mar 26, 2021 Yuri Zbitnoff rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: conspiracy, dystopia, it-s-a-conspiracy, no-thanks

"The reorganization of the world has to at first to be mainly the work of a 'movement' or a party or a religion or cult, whatever we choose to call it" (p. 84)

"We do not deplore the Russian revolution as a revolution. We complain that it is not a good enough revolution and we want a better one" (p. 58)

Talk about the New World Order and Overlords of GoodThink will deplatform you as a conspiracy theorist and purveyor of misinformation. At the same time, ignore the fact that the same Overlords have "The reorganization of the world has to at first to be mainly the work of a 'movement' or a party or a religion or cult, whatever we choose to call it" (p. 84)

"We do not deplore the Russian revolution as a revolution. We complain that it is not a good enough revolution and we want a better one" (p. 58)

Talk about the New World Order and Overlords of GoodThink will deplatform you as a conspiracy theorist and purveyor of misinformation. At the same time, ignore the fact that the same Overlords have been talking about the New World Order for literally decades. Only now it's been rebranded The Great Reset and the rallying cry is "Build Back Better." Klaus Schwab and his coterie of globalists didn't just pull this stuff out of thin air. These ideas have been incubating for years.

HG Wells will likely be remembered for War of the Worlds, The Time Machine and The Island of Dr. Moreau, but The New World Order offers a clearer window of insight into what exactly he was up to in his fiction. Published in 1940, The New World Order is an early draft of the plan for a world socialism. Of course, this one is going to be totally humane, totally benign, and won't have any of the nasty gulags, exterminations and repressions of all those other revolutions. No, this one is going to be wonderful. Really. Trust us.

Similar to the tone used by Jonas Salk in Survival of the Wisest, Wells talks about this as nothing less than a moral imperative. The human race is at stake! Only retards and uneducated religious freaks would oppose an idea that this enlightened and cosmopolitan. We'll need lots of education, but don't call it propaganda. No, we're just trying to get you braindead dumbshits to get on board.

There may be riots, food shortages, civil unrest, and mandatory vaccination programs despite the fact that Wells specifies that "no man shall be subjected to any sort of mutilation or sterilization except with his own deliberate consent". It's all for the Greater Good, you useless rubes. We need to be subject to the Law because man cannot be trusted to do the right thing. And only the people who make the Law can be trusted. The American revolution was about emancipation and the fight against the consolidation of central power, but that's already outdated. We need centralized power and global collectivism now. So take your shot, eat the cockroach burger, watch your Cardi b videos, go to the BLM protest and retweet everything Greta Thunberg posts, you miserable shitbags. You're finally free. ...more

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Feb 08, 2021 Joss Southgate rated it it was ok · review of another edition

In 2021 this reads like midwit “world socialism will make everyone happy” nonsense from somebody with zero grasp of the nature of humanity, and a faith in progress that the passage of time has made look utterly embarrassing.

However you have to bare in mind this was written during the Second World War, the bloodiest conflict in history, so it’s hardly surprising that in the wake of such a disastrous war many intellectuals theorised how best to move forward toward global peace.

“The New World Orde ...more

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Jun 22, 2017 Daniel rated it it was amazing

This is propaganda in favor of global governance. Although I personally believe this would be a bad idea Wells is very persuasive in his arguments even though the arguments are harsh.

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Jun 04, 2007 Shannon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Public domain work...lesser known. Worth the read.

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Mar 28, 2021 Yordy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2021, language-read-in-english, my-kindle, history

Phrases that I would like to remember by the author H. G. Wells .:

"World peace means a great revolution. More and more of us are beginning to realize that it cannot mean less than that."

"In Germany, popular thinking seemed to be under the control of Mr. Dr. Goebbels; in Great Britain, we writers were invited to make ourselves available to some information ministry, that is, to the availability of individuals until then without clarity or representativeness, and to write under his advice. Officia Phrases that I would like to remember by the author H. G. Wells .:

"World peace means a great revolution. More and more of us are beginning to realize that it cannot mean less than that."

"In Germany, popular thinking seemed to be under the control of Mr. Dr. Goebbels; in Great Britain, we writers were invited to make ourselves available to some information ministry, that is, to the availability of individuals until then without clarity or representativeness, and to write under his advice. Officials from the British Council and the Conservative Party Directorate gain key positions in that Ministry. "

"This great global debate must continue, and it must be now. Now, while the weapons are still firing, it is time for thought. It is incredibly foolish to speak, as so many people do, of ending the war and then having a World Conference to inaugurate a new era. As soon as the struggle ceases the real world conference, the live discussion will stop too. Diplomats and politicians will meet with an air of profound competence and close the doors of the outside world and resume - Versailles. silenced world yawns and waits about its mysteries. "

"The present war, for and against Hitler, Stalin and Mr. Chamberlain and so on, does not even touch on the essential problem of the abolition of distance. It can really destroy everything and still not solve anything. If anyone could eliminate all the issues of the present conflict, we should also be confronted with the essential enigma, which is the abolition of the borders of most existing sovereign states, and their merger into some greater Peace. and mutual guarantees are not enough. We have certainly learned enough about the value of treaties over the past half century to realize this. We have to, just because of the abolition of distance, bring human disputes together, under a common control of war prevention . "

"The unemployed, avid and adventurous young people are in fact the shock troops in the destruction of the old social order everywhere. They find guidance in some daring political party or in an inspired champion, who organizes them for revolutionary or counter-revolutionary purposes. It doesn't matter which one. They become communists or they become fascists, Nazis, the Irish go to the Republican Army, other members of the Ku Klux Klan and so on. The essence is the combination of energy, frustration and discontent. these movements have in common is a genuine indignation against the social institutions that have given rise to them, and then, with indifference, a quasi-military organization and the determination to take power for themselves, incorporated in their leaders. wise and powerful government would anticipate and avoid these destructive activities at any cost, providing new and interesting jobs and the necessary condition for a b successful and satisfactory for all. "

"The New Deal is clearly an attempt to achieve a functioning socialism and prevent a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive" policies "and" plans "of the Russian experiment. Americans avoid the word" socialism " , but what else can be called "socialism"? "

"But when it comes to the rate and amount of participation in building a rational world order, which we can hope for from any country or group of countries, we are in a field where there is little more than guesswork and random generalizations about" national character "to work on them. We are dealing with masses of people who can be influenced enormously by a brilliant newspaper or by an extraordinarily persuasive or convincing personality, or by almost accidental changes in the flow of events. I, for example, cannot to say how far most educated and capable people in the British Empire can now agree with our idea of accepting and spreading collectivism, or how strong their conservative resistance can be. It is my own country and I should know it better, and I don’t know enough dispassionately or deeply enough to decide that. I don’t see how anyone can predict these eddies and eddies of r answer. " ...more

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May 28, 2017 Dan rated it it was amazing

This is propaganda and it’s both simple and convincing. A potentially dangerous book.

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Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, ...more