High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nationalist Clubs were an organized network of socialist political groups which emerged at the end of the 1880s in the United States of America in an effort to make real the ideas advanced by Edward Bellamy in his utopian novel, Looking Backward. More than 160 Nationalist Clubs were formed by so-called "Bellamyites," who sought to remake economy and society through the nationalization of industry. Owing to the growth of the Populist movement and the financial and physical difficulties suffered by the movement`s namesake, the Bellamyite Nationalist Clubs began to dissipate in 1892, lost their national magazine in 1894, and vanished from the scene entirely circa 1896.