"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?"

This quote by H. G. Wells is describing the New Deal, a series of financial programs implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. Wells is recommending that the New Deal is an attempt to create a socialist system in the United States, and that it resembles the policies and plans of the Russian experiment. He keeps in mind that Americans may not be comfortable with the word 'socialism', but that is what the New Deal is essentially trying to accomplish. Wells is suggesting that the New Deal is a necessary procedure to avoid a social collapse in America, and that it is a form of socialism. He is suggesting that Americans ought to accept the New Deal as a way to prevent a social collapse, even if they are unpleasant with the idea of socialism.