Post by kungfuzu on Jan 30, 2021 20:25:25 GMT -8
"The Revolt Against The Masses" by Fred Siegel
The Revolt Against the Masses is a history of the roots of Progressivism in America. The book gets to the point early in the Introduction and 1st chapter.
As I have often said, the left, elites, system-whatever you want to call them hate the middle class. The middle class threatens old established power. It threatens inherited money. It threatens old shibboleths which keep certain groups in power and wealth. It churns society.
The middle class is what is being attacked now in the USA and rest of the world, but the USA is particularly important to the elites as it is, by far, the largest and most powerful middle class in the world.
People need to finally grasp this. We are not just dealing with left-right issues here. We are not dealing with political theories on economics and the like. We are talking about fundamental emotions and power. Reason has little to do with it. It is as old as history.
The Revolt Against the Masses is a history of the roots of Progressivism in America. The book gets to the point early in the Introduction and 1st chapter.
In the Twenties, the first writers and thinkers to call themselves liberals adopted the hostility to the bourgeois life that had long characterized European intellectuals of both the left and the right.
The aim of liberalism's founding writers and thinkers-such as Herbert Croly, Randolph Bourne, H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, and H.L. Mencken-was to create an American aristocracy of sorts, to provide the same sense of hierarchy and order long associated with European statism.
The best short credo of liberalism came from the pen of the once canonical left-wing literary historian Vernon Parrington in the late 1920s. "Rid society of the dictatorship of the middle class," Parrington insisted, referring to both democracy and capitalism, "and the artist and the scientist will erect in American a civilization that may become, what civilization was in earlier days, a thing to be respected."
American liberals don't like to compare themselves with other twentieth-century ideologues. But, like all the ideologies that emerged in the early-twentieth century-from communism and fascism to socialism, social democracy, and its first cousin, British Fabiansim-liberalism was created by intellectuals and writers who were rebelling against the failings of the rising middle class.
As I have often said, the left, elites, system-whatever you want to call them hate the middle class. The middle class threatens old established power. It threatens inherited money. It threatens old shibboleths which keep certain groups in power and wealth. It churns society.
The middle class is what is being attacked now in the USA and rest of the world, but the USA is particularly important to the elites as it is, by far, the largest and most powerful middle class in the world.
People need to finally grasp this. We are not just dealing with left-right issues here. We are not dealing with political theories on economics and the like. We are talking about fundamental emotions and power. Reason has little to do with it. It is as old as history.