HG Wells was an author as well as being a socialist. A miserable early life did not help. Joining the Fabian Society at its beginning demonstrated the political view but he kept changing. Going off the Fabians was one of his better moves.
In his political essay, The Rights of Man he argues passionately for Liberty but also for state control of everything, in fine for Socialism, for tyranny. Doctor Hayek tells us in The Road to Serfdom, at the end of his chapter on Planning and the Rule of Law that Mr. Wells is muddled, which is a kind way of putting it. I am prone to impute a degree of malignancy to Fabians. Admiring Joe Stalin is suggestive. He was for Eugenics, which does not make for popularity these days.
H. G. Wells ex Wiki
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From quite early in his career, he sought a better way to organise society, and wrote a number of Utopian novels. The first of these was A Modern Utopia (1905), which shows a worldwide utopia with "no imports but meteorites, and no exports at all";[27]Wells called his political views socialist. He was for a time a member of the socialist Fabian Society, but broke with them as his creative political imagination, matching the originality shown in his fiction, outran theirs.[33] He later grew staunchly critical of them as having a poor understanding of economics and educational reform.........
He envisioned the state to be a planned society that would advance science, end nationalism, and allow people to progress by merit rather than birth. In 1932, he told Young Liberals at the University of Oxford that progressive leaders must become liberal fascists or enlightened Nazis in order to implement their ideas.[35] In 1940, Wells published a book called The New World Order that outlined his plan as to how a World Government will be set up........
The leadership of Joseph Stalin led to a change in his view of the Soviet Union even though his initial impression of Stalin himself was mixed..........
Wells believed in eugenics, in theory, but doubted whether human knowledge had advanced sufficiently for it to be successful.
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Consistency was not his style.
The Rights of Man; an essay in collective definition
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