I recall a comment that Wells’s Time Machine was a satire on both Darwin and Marx. Darwin because in the future evolution goes into reverse ending up with a primeval scene at the end of the world. Marx because the world of the Eloi and Morlocks is a reverse of capitalism in which the proletarian Morlocks have power over the feeble aristocratic Eloi.
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I recall a comment that Wells’s Time Machine was a satire on both Darwin and Marx. Darwin because in the future evolution goes into reverse ending up with a primeval scene at the end of the world. Marx because the world of the Eloi and Morlocks is a reverse of capitalism in which the proletarian Morlocks have power over the feeble aristocratic Eloi.