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effectively that , even before the Civil War , “ a new calculus and new symbols were required to interpret the new West that was being created by forces wholly foreign to agrarian assumptions . ” ) The greatest of these new forces was ...
effectively that , even before the Civil War , “ a new calculus and new symbols were required to interpret the new West that was being created by forces wholly foreign to agrarian assumptions . ” ) The greatest of these new forces was ...
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... it was largely a vain attempt to restore a lost agrarian Eden by beating back the forces of industrialism . ... by the following questions : Was Populism a progressive social force based on the realities of an industrial society ?
... it was largely a vain attempt to restore a lost agrarian Eden by beating back the forces of industrialism . ... by the following questions : Was Populism a progressive social force based on the realities of an industrial society ?
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Here the essential rationality of Populism becomes clear : Man could rationally control his society , particularly by harnessing the productive forces already in existence . But this could not occur under the existing form of social ...
Here the essential rationality of Populism becomes clear : Man could rationally control his society , particularly by harnessing the productive forces already in existence . But this could not occur under the existing form of social ...
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Contents
Populist Ideology | 7 |
A Cross of Gold | 23 |
Utopian Conceptions | 29 |
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