In 1931, the extremes of the so-called "Red Scare" of the Truman administration, administered predominantly by Roy Cohn and Senator McCarthy, had not yet occurred in the United States, and people generally weren't experiencing a propaganda-generated overwhelming fear of the idea of sharing wealth as the basis of an economy (socialism). That the novel spoke to the dangers of authoritarian collectivism (Communism) was predominantly a projection of the times in the 60's. By the 1960's, the book was considered a classic - a cautionary tale of the consequences of a society based on the pursuit of materialism. His prescient vision of a future society was extrapolated at the time from the excesses of the 1920's ("Roaring Twenties), at the dawning of the Great Depression.
Aldous Huxley wrote his socially dystopian novel "Brave New World," in 1931.
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