In contrast, there have been two far less well-known novels which critique socialism from a classical liberal perspective. These are Eugen Richter’s Pictures of the Socialistic Future (1891; English translation from 1893) and Henry Hazlitt’s Time Will Run Back (1952, revised version from 1966) (see Makovi (2015) for a summary). Both novels describe a version of socialism under idealised conditions, assuming away many of the problems that socialist societies actually faced (or in Richter’s case, would face in the future).
