This chapter maps the road to Brave New World, which was embedded in an increased political output by Huxley as the economic crisis of the 1930s stirred up political unrest and Europe was, it seemed unavoidably, sliding towards another major war. To begin with, the dystopia was just meant to be a polemic commentary on the virulent political techno-utopianism of the time. But the book soon became a digest of the most important socio-political trends of the day, from American consumerism to Stalinist communism. However, from the late 1920s to the mid-1930s, Huxley was a champion of social planning himself, looking for alternatives to fossilised parliamentarism and the rising pressures exerted by the moneyed classes.