Katha Pollitt wrote:
>-- I do think
>of the populists as anti-semitic, as most American Christians were
>before WW2. Didn't they tend to blame their problems on >international
>conspiracies of jewish bankers and so on? The Cross of gold >image did
>strike me, just when I was writing, as having a subtext. maybe I >was
>being too literary critical.
> I would be amazed if Bryan, a minister who believed, like pat
>robertson, that those who rejected Christ were bound for Hell, >regarded
>jews in a positive light. But I'm ready to be instructed.
> does anyone know about this?
>curiously,
>Katha
How about Michael Rogin on ,"Joe MacCarthy and the Intellectuals," critiquing the Bell, Glazer, Hofstadter line on populism. or Norman Pollack or Christopher Lasch in ,"The Agony of the American Left," ( Oh, Dr. Marx how much longer?) his "True and Only Heaven, Progress & It's Critics," or the preface he did to the Vintage paperback of Hostadter's American Political Tradition.
BTW, these discussions on populism have an echo in late 70's and early 80's issues of Socialist Revolution and Socialist Review where Harry Boyte kicked up a valuable debate on populism and community organizing. Boyte came up in a post here on lbo. Boyte at the time was in the New American Movement before the merger with DSOC to create DSA.
Michael Pugliese