> Well, the threatened collapse of capitalism led FDR to agree to some
> social democratic reforms. It was a rare moment in American politics
> when the "left" was collective rather than individualist/populist.
> Didn't last, but it was a departure.
I don't get the juxtaposition of collective and populist, especially in a US context. The Populists' (that is, those in the movement affiliated with the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party) vision of utopia was entitled the "cooperative commonwealth," no?