--- On Wed, 8/19/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Frankfurt on the Hudson
> How the fathers of Critical Theory found their way to
> America
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> By Adam Kirsch | 7:00 am August 18, 2009
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> The Jewish dimension to this story is only occasionally
> Wheatland's explicit subject, but it is absolutely central
[WS:] It is interesting to note how much socialism, an essentially universalist and internationalist project, was nonetheless embedded in national and ethnic cultures, especially those with collectivist bend - such as Jewish, Eastern European, Ibero-American or French. This embeddedness in national and ethnic cultures already favorably predisposed to collectivist approaches to social issues may explain why socialism has never been popular in individualistic societies, such as the US or Anglo-Saxon countries in general.
Wojtek