Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a science fiction book that criticizes the evils of American capitalism in the Gilded Age and argues for a socialist society of individualism and equality. The novel tells the story of Julian West, a man who falls into a hypnotic slumber and awakes in the year 2000. West meets a Dr. Leete, who shows him the new world, explaining the benefits of the state-owned economic system: reduction of menial labor, early retirement, individual freedom, abundance and equal distribution of wealth.
Throughout the history of mankind civilizations have always been run by a leader or a kind of figure to govern over other people These leaders usually emerge due to their superiority over others in factors that may include strength wisdom or even experience However does this mean that theyll be the best to assume the role of ruler Not according to Plato Plato was a philosopher who felt that successful leaders must emerge through a process to achieve enlightenment He uses The Allegory of the Cav