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

onceto produce aesthetic experiences, organize socialrelations, and sustain po- litical commitments.² Acomplication to be consid ...

categories (e.g., virtuesand vices) and the belief inamoral order (e.g., justicevs. injustice) indicate that the phenomenon of e ...

tendentious novels (Tendenzromane)openedupanimaginary space wherepub- lic and privatefeelingscould become one, and which in the ...

er as someone who earns the trust of themasses byresponding to their inner- most feelingsand acting as“the chosen advocate of th ...

love”⁹promotedbythe London-based Bund derKommunisten(Communist Lea- gue) and similar groups.Inacircular distributed around the s ...

bate on emotional socialism, they can also beread asarecommendation specif- icallytowomen to holdback and practice restraint.Acc ...

movement; hence his conclusion:“The consequence of class struggle can there- fore onlyeverbeanincrease in the dissatisfaction of ...

has been interpreted as evidence of the conservative tastes of SPD party leaders and theirenduringbelief in the classics, positi ...

tioners and admirerstothe struggles of the period.”²³Giventhe strongutopian tendencies in the history of the British workingclas ...

tures of feelings”can be used here to make sense of the growingoppositionto emotional socialism duringacrucial period in the his ...

turn of the century can thereforebedescribed asaprocess of masculinization, with pathos and sentiment increasinglyseen asathreat ...

for radical change, indirectlygavecredencetothe other workers’movements, es- pecially anarcho-syndicalism, from which the SPD se ...

beyond the fundamental truth of Christianity,“Loveyour neighbor asyourself,”and allows himto adopt the maxim“Lo ve your neighbor ...

to believe:Imakeadifference.Without me thingsdon’twork out.Ihave to be part of this.Victory is mine.”³¹ Notwithstanding the exis ...

to the workingclass the role ofredeemer of futuregenerations. [...]This training made the workingclass forgetboth its hatred and ...

oriented.To theAnti-Socialist Laws, as well as otherlawslimiting the right of free assemblyand association, Social Democrats res ...

The proletarian lifeworld consisted of three distinct but related milieus, the political party,the labor unions, and the various ...

imagination of the revolutionary working class. Notwithstanding his ownemo- tional ambivalence, Buttinger’sdescriptions bear wit ...

Chapter 4 On WorkersSinging in OneVoice Nothingbrings the hearts and minds ofalarge groupofpeopletogether moredeeplyand strongly ...

be dismissed asmere antisocialist prejudice. Closelyrelated, the workers’choral societies bring into sharp relief the historical ...