[lbo-talk] Re: poor, white and pissed

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Michael:
> This is very apropos our recent thread on how historical fraud is treated
> differently depending on how congenial it is the powers that be.  Because
> anti-semitism actually wasn't a travelling companion of American populism.
> AFAICT, the belief that it was is entirely based on a historical fraud
> perpetrated by Richard Hofstadter and disseminated by the host of 50s
> writers who wrote on "mass society" and "the end of ideology."  He was

So what is your point?  Does the fact that US populism was not as rabidly
anti-semitic as some of the European varieties exonerate it?  Does the fact
that Hofstadter erred in one area mean that his entire argument on US
anti-intellectualism is false?  

Wojtek