The rage and fury of Coketown’s production has to be balanced off by an equal rage and fury of consumption—continence would be fatal.
Lewis Mumford
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Story of Utopias (1922); Exact wording and attribution checked. Critique of industrial utopias; Coketown is his model of a community organized around industrial production.
- The Story of Utopias (1922)
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