The Proletarian Dream Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany 1863-1933

from unorganized masses does not invalidatethe hiddenaffinityofmassdis- course with antidemocratic positions.Forsimilar reasons, ...

ture of thismysterious mass.Hislater references to formless multitudesmore specificallypresent the mass asaphenomenon of disinte ...

theabsoluteother of bourgeois society and folk community.Later chapters will show in whatways massdiscourse–thatis, the fear of, ...

Chapter 2 Proletarian Dreams:FromMarxtoMarxism In directcontrast to German philosophy, which descends from heaventoearth, herewe ...

exclusivel yonproletarians“as narrated, thought of, imagined, conceived”and establish in what ways the“proletariat”functioned as ...

of organized religion, and the continuities with theguild system do not diminish the overdeterminedemotional function of the pro ...

one of exclusivity can be traced back to the names chosenbythe first socialist groups duringtheiryears in exile. When the Bund d ...

ical and fictional texts that focus on social practicesand emphasize human agency. Afirst indication of underlying conceptual te ...

andrelated categories such asarbeitende KlasseandArbeiterklasse(working class) madeafirst appearance in the early1800s in order ...

ethics from thehypocrisies of bourgeois morality.AsElfriedeAdelberghas docu- mented in great detail, Marx and Engels usedthe ter ...

whole conditions of his life, it is naturalthat exactlyinthis opposition he should be most manly, noblest,mostworthyofsympathy.” ...

ect of emancipation requiresaheavy dependence on literary models and aesthet- ic modalities and involves extensive references to ...

itself onlythroughthecomplete rewinning of man.This dissolution of society asaparticular estateistheproletariat.¹⁵ Marx and Enge ...

geneity ofamovement that also included anarchists and labor unions and that, on the level of discourse,required continuous adjus ...

and to aclassless society.”¹⁹In his 1875 critique of the Gotha Program, the found- ing document of the SPD,Marx insists that dic ...

posal prompted Lenin to denounce him as the“renegadeKautsky.”²¹Afterthe October Revolution, it was leftto Georg Lukács (1885–197 ...

through the alternating use of“proletariat”or“workingclass”as the preferred term. Thus the SPD’sfounding document,the Eisenach P ...

and elusive enoughto operate on multiple and contradictory levels: asapolitical program,asocialmyth, aculturalconstruction, and ...

Chapter 3 EmotionalSocialism and Sentimental Masculinity BackthenIwas in the mostawful emotional stateimaginable. That they had ...

tions onlyinthe form of texts.Inwriting,emotions are endowed with political relevance throughasystem of differences: by distingu ...