[lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading but Notfor the Reasons the Critics Have in Mind

Mark Rickling mrickling at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 18:46:22 PDT 2006


On 10/10/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Who's arguing against a movement? It's a comment on a system of
> thought.

Which is the fatal flaw of Hofstadter's Age of Reform on Populism, that is, the actual historical movement of farmers in the late 19th Century which tried to exert democratic control over the nation's money supply and which birthed the People's Party. It's telling that Age of Reform never once references the Omaha platform or considers the social conditions which would give rise to such a political program.



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