Caesar's Column

Donnelly, IgnatiusHG; Rideout, Walter B.

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“…The most popular of these novels, though seldom read today, was Ignatius Donnelly's 1889 work, Caesar's Column. 27 Donnelly had served as the Populist lieutenant governor of Minnesota and was the author of the 1892 national Populist platform. He was also the editor of two leading Populist newspapers, the Anti-Monopolist and the Representative.…”

Section: How the Future Affects The Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Oppenheimer was one of the "court Jews" who managed the fiscal affairs of many German principalities during this period. 27 Lacking financial acumen and access to international financial markets, even such exalted German noble families as the Habsburgs and Hohen-zollerns relied on their court Jews to finance their wars and extravagant lifestyles. One court Jew, Gershon von Bleichroeder, in the service of Otto von Bismarck, created the financial foundations for the unification of the German Reich.…”

Section: The Malleable Pastmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Warping Time

Ginsberg¹,

Bachner²

2023

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Warping Time shows how narratives of the past influence what people believe about the present and future state of the world. In Benjamin Ginsberg and Jennifer Bachner’s simple experiments, in which the authors measured the impact of different stories their subjects heard about the past, these “history lessons” moved contemporary policy preferences by an average of 16 percentage points; forecasts of the future moved contemporary policy preferences by an average of 12 percentage points; the two together moved preferences an average of 21 percentage points. And, in an Orwellian twist, the authors estimate that the “history lessons” had an average “erasure effect” of 8.5 percentage points—the difference between those with long-held preferences and those who did not recall that they previously held other opinions before participating in the experiment. The fact that the past, present, and future are subject to human manipulation suggests that history is not simply the product of impersonal forces, material conditions, or past choices. Humans are the architects of history, not its captives. Political reality is tenuous. Changes in our understanding of the past or future can substantially alter perceptions of and action in the present. Finally, the manipulation of time, especially the relationship between past and future, is a powerful political tool.

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Section: How the Future Affects The Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Malleable Pastmentioning

confidence: 99%

Warping Time

Ginsberg¹,

Bachner²

2023

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“…This, combined with radical envy’s centrifugal nature, renders the boundary separating resentment from enmity very porous. The dangers of trespassing on such a boundary were fully grasped by the Minnesota populist, Ignatius Donnelly, in his dystopian novel Caesar’s Column ([1892] 1960). The term ‘populism’ had not yet been coined in the English language, when Donnelly drafted the Platform of the Populist Party (1892) in America.…”

Section: Populism Overhauledmentioning

confidence: 99%

Populism as a logic of political action

Silva

Vieira

2018

European Journal of Social Theory

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This article offers a new understanding of populism. The argument unfolds as follows: first, the populist literature is reviewed and two main approaches are identified: ontic and logic-oriented, the more important of which is the Schmitt-Laclau logic of enmity. While the authors broadly agree with Laclau’s criticism of ontic approaches, they endorse neither his ontological understanding of enmity, nor his claim that populism is politics, and enmity is the logic of populism. Next, the origins of populism are located in a paradox at the heart of democracy. Democracy defines itself as a community of inclusion, yet exclusion is constitutive of inclusion, including therefore democratic inclusion. Then is discussed what the authors believe to be the true logic of populism: resentment. Unlike enmity, which functions in Laclau’s populist theory as an ontology of non-identity, resentment operates within a rivalrous framework, which presupposes identification between the parts and refers to a set of normative commitments. Finally, the article concludes by presenting an understanding of populism as a specific logic of political action.

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“…Dystopias had had a long history in America. Indeed, the late‐nineteenth and early‐twentieth century flowering of utopias also saw the publication of Ignatius Donnelly's Caesar's Column (1890), Eugene Richter's Pictures of a Socialist Future (1893), and Jack London's The Iron Heel (1907)—all popular dystopias (and all set in cities). Decades later in the “classic era of the ‘utopia of the negative’ ” (Kumar 224), Animal Farm (Orwell 1945), Nineteen Eighty‐Four (Orwell 1948), and Brave New World (Huxley 1932/1958) entered the American vocabulary, even of those who knew only vaguely of their textual existence.…”

Section: Utopias and Americamentioning

confidence: 99%