Eric C. Schneider
Smack: Heroin and the American City
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Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York
Летећи Полип wrote:
Ovaj tip razume neke stvari.
The strength of the Social Democracies during the crisis years shows just how completely the workers had been infected with this conservatism. Thus, this strength was not to be explained on purely political grounds. It is now important to comprehend its basic elements. Two facts stand out: the emotional tie to the fiihrer, that is to say, the unshakableness of the faith in the infallibility of the political leadership9 (notwithstanding all the criticism, which never materialized into action), and the sex-moralistic assimilation to the conservatism of the lower middle class. This assimilation to the middle class was energetically encouraged by the upper middle class everywhere. The Social Democrats should have literally swung their cudgels, in the beginning, at a time when fascism had not yet attained victory. Instead, they held them in reserve and used them only against the revolutionary workers. For the masses who were Social Democrats, they had a far more dangerous expedient: conservative ideology in all areas.
When, then, the Social Democrat worker found himself in the economic crisis which degraded him to the status of a coolie, the development of his revolutionary sentiments was severely retarded by the conservative structuralization that had been taking shape in him for decades. Either he remained in the camp of the Social Democrats, notwithstanding his criticism and rejection of their policies, or he went over to the NSDAP in search of a better replacement. Irresolute and indecisive, owing to the deep contradiction between revolutionary and conservative sentiments, disappointed by his own leadership, he followed the line of least resistance. Whether he would give up his conservative tendencies and arrive at a complete consciousness of his actual responsibility in the production process, i.e., at a revolutionary consciousness, depended solely on the correct or incorrect leadership of the revolutionary party.
Thus the communist assertion that it was the Social Democrat policies that put fascism in the saddle was correct from a psychological viewpoint. Disappointment in Social Democracy, accompanied by the contradiction between wretchedness and conservative thinking, must lead to fascism if there are no revolutionary organizations. For example, following the fiasco of the Labor party's policies in England, in 1930-31, fascism began to infiltrate the workers who, then, in the election of 1931, cut away to the Right, instead of going over to communism.
upravo sam progutala i treci deo. Davno mi se nesto nije ovoliko svidelobela maca wrote:Ja uzela elenu ferante, bas da vidim kakvo je. Za sada je okej, ide dosta glatko
bela maca wrote:završila sam, konačno
kakva priča, kakvo pripovedanje, kakav kraj!
i kako je dobra fora što se ne zna ko je elena ferante, što je to pseudonim. možda je lila pravo ime.
lalinea wrote:
Za sada (prva trecina) Rejnolds dobar kao i uvek. Vrlo zanimljiv univerzum (a i izbor imena: Triglav, Prozor...).