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

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Oct 11 11:27:21 PDT 2006


Marvin Gandall wrote:
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> The growth of CCF, however, was also paralleled by the rise of Social
> Credit, a competing right-wing populist movement based largely on the same
> rural constituency in neighbouring Alberta, in the heart of Canada's "bible
> belt". It adopted the unorthodox easy money economic theories of a Scottish
> engineer, C.H. Douglas,

Which ideas and closely related ideas were also to be found in Brooks Adams (as elite as you can get in u.s. history), who was deeply anti-semite, and Ezra Pound.

Anti-semitism has its source in high culture from which it trickles down to "low" culture.

Carrol



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