dystopia

In Rickett's vision of the future a moderate socialism is the ruling ideology, and in this it differs from The Doom of the Great City and other cacotopias of the period that project the gory specter of "sanguinary excess" that England is spared in The Christ that Is to Be (2).

(45.) For English anticommunist cacotopias of the late Victorian period, see Matthew Beaumont, "Cacotopianism, the Paris Commune, and England's Anti-Communist Imaginary, 1870-1900," ELH 73 (2006): 465-87.