[lbo-talk] the WSWS does The Nation

[Jim Straub]

Which actually makes today's nation seem a bit cooler in my eyes.  It's not
often that we on the left successfully appropriate one of the bad guys'
institutions; as opposed to the other way around.
Plus that climate issue was like one of the tightest things they've put out
in years.


> 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.
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