On Jun 21, 2007, at 8:54 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote:
> This is what WSWS does best. Think the Nation might run a condensed
> version
> of this?
Not likely.
I hadn't realized how reactionary The Nation was in the 19th century. Sven Beckert quotes it a lot in The Monied Metropolis. Its editor in the 1870s and 1880s, E.L. Godkin, was the New York bourgeoisie's "organic intellectual," as Beckert put it; he helped them formulate their Gilded Age social philosophy, which boiled down to social Darwisinism and shooting strikers. And he & his gang were fiercely antidemocratic: Godkin was at the center of a failed attempt to limit the franchise in New York state to the propertied.
Doug