New World Order (conspiracy theory)

===''The Open Conspiracy''===
[[File:H.G._Wells_by_Beresford.jpg|thumb|upright|[[H. G. Wells]] wrote the books ''[[The Open Conspiracy]]'' and ''[[The New World Order (Wells)|The New World Order]]''.]]
In his 1928 book ''[[The Open Conspiracy]]'' British writer and futurist [[H. G. Wells]] promoted [[cosmopolitanism]] and offered blueprints for a [[world revolution]] and [[World Brain|world brain]] to establish a technocratic [[world state]] and [[planned economy]].<ref name="Wells 1928">{{cite book|author=Wells, H. G.|title=The Open Conspiracy|publisher=Book Tree|date=2006|isbn=1-58509-275-4|title-link=The Open Conspiracy}}</ref> Wells warned, however, in his 1940 book ''[[The New World Order (Wells)|The New World Order]]'' that:

{{quotation|... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order, be rendered unhappy by the frustration of their passions and ambitions through its advent and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.<ref name="Wells 1940"/>}}

Wells's books were influential in giving a second meaning to the term "[[new world order (politics)|new world order]]", which would only be used by [[state socialism|state socialist]] supporters and [[anti-communism|anti-communist]] opponents for generations to come. However, despite the popularity and notoriety of his ideas, Wells failed to exert a deeper and more lasting influence because he was unable to concentrate his energies on a direct appeal to [[intelligentsia]]s who would, ultimately, have to coordinate the Wellsian new world order.<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=2009188|title=H. G. Wells, British Patriot in Search of a World State|first=Edward Mead|last=Earle|date=26 April 2018|journal=World Politics|volume=2|issue=2|pages=181–208|doi=10.2307/2009188|s2cid=154346069 }}</ref>
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