[Oztrich Boy]

The prototype managed economy dystopian novel was Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (It wasn't meant to be, but with the 20th century history on how these turn out in reality, the flaws are apparent)

[VietVet]

I thought “Looking Backwards” was rather dystopian too, but from the perspective of the point of view character, an upper middle class 19th Cent Boston gentleman, the civilization depicted was quite ideal. The readers, who would be of the same social and economic class, would have thought the same.