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"The central theme in Progressivism was this revolt against the industrial discipline: the Progressive movement was the complaint of the unorganized against the consequences of organization."
They're saying it's the worst summation of the Progressive Era of all time. Richard what the hell are you talking about. Patently absurd.
— Aug 14, 2026 06:41AM
They're saying it's the worst summation of the Progressive Era of all time. Richard what the hell are you talking about. Patently absurd.
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Bad sourcing is a Hofstadter special. Ridiculous critique of Ignatius Donnelly as "sadistic" for his dystopian fiction. Hofstadter's attacks on the Populists from a liberal angle fall flat because he doesn't acknowledge the Herrenvolk nature of America writ large, only in the progressive Populist movement and rural anxieties. Reads like Clinton-Schumerian theory lol
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Never read Hofstadter. Is he a fraud? The sentence you quoted alone is pretty damn stupid
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Yes and no. The entirety of the Consensus School historians read stupid nowadays. Hofstadter is particular is poorly regarded nowadays because he took extreme liberty with sourcing. He is more of a liberal philosopher of history than an actual historian. He qualifies this nonsense with an able analysis of the contraposition in the T. Rooseveltian federal power, but that just proves he had no reason to write the absurd quote above lol