H.G. Wells " The Outline of History " still has merit ( contra Leon Trotsky's humorous contempt )

   [ "I would love to hear more about what Trotsky has to say about Wells. Does Trotsky write about Wells in other books? Wells' loss of faith in utopianism over the years gives me some cause to believe he himself understood that his naive socialism and art of speculative science needed more work. Any thoughts?  "]

I only remember a rather humorous sketch by Trotsky of his impression of Fabian socialist, H.G. Wells', published interview with Lenin. Trotsky did contemptuously dismiss Wells' ambitious -or over-ambitious - " Outline of History " .

 But reading many chapters of the book I see merit in it given todays extremely reactionary intellectual atmosphere. It is so hard for even  the best and brightest bourgeois intellectuals to make a complete break from the ruling capitalist class. But honest socialists can help them " defect " .