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

ence for allegory asamere strategy of concealment in responseto political cen- sorship.Invisualizations of the future of sociali ...

tion of realism asamoreappropriate form of engaging with social reality.The inclusion inSüddeutscher Postillonof illustrations b ...

In his monumental history of caricature publishedin1903,Fuchs bringsto- gether two key terms,pathos and allegory,toidentifyapart ...

parent shortcoming indirectlyconfirms thatsocialist allegory resists convention- al definitions that–based on the distinctioninH ...

sions, Zeus at one point sends Pandora, the first woman, to bring unhappiness to humans by releasingall the evils of the world f ...

Karl Henckell’sBuch der Freiheit(1893, Book ofFreedom),acollection of poems commissioned by the SPD’sVorwärts publishing house. ...

Fig..Karl Marx as“Der gefesselte Prometheus/Prometheus Bound,”.Withpermission of Heinrich-Heine Institut, Düsseldorf. Just ...

ism, it proves surprisingly ill-suited in making sense of socialist allegory.For in- stead of revealing the signs of decline,all ...

Fig..Max Slevogt,“Wir sinddie Kraft/We Arethe Power,”Mai-Festzeitung,back cover.Reprinted in Udo Achten, ed. and intr., Sü ...

the draped tunics wornbythe Roman Libertas mark her as profoundlydifferent from actual working-classwomen, renderingher–the fema ...

Fig..Hermann Scherenberg,“Hasselmanns Enthüllungen/Hasselmann’sRevelations,”Ulk (). Withpermission ofBayerische Staatsbi ...

Scholars have grappled with the nonsynchronicities that sustainedsocialist allegory and its ongoing transformation of obsolescen ...

the hair,the Phrygian cap on the head, and thegoddesses of freedom disap- peared as visual and symbolic motifs–reason to conclud ...

on an imaginary folk cultureand mythic antiquity as channeled through German classicismand, increasingly, nationalism. As later ...

Chapter 6 Ferdinand Lassalle, the First SocialistCelebrity IbelieveinFerdinand Lassalle, the messiah of the nineteenth century, ...

describes individuals with exceptional qualities, the celebrityphenomenon de- pends toalarge degree on public fantasies about pr ...

Fig..“Lassalle, der Kämpfer gegen die Ka- pitalmacht/Lassalle, Fighteragainst the Power of Capital,”c.,color lithograph. W ...

geois elements of the working class.⁴Women, who werelargelyexcluded from workers’associations, playedanimportantrole in preservi ...

the personal and the political.Eventhe salaciousgossip about his privatelife, by validatingthe power of emotions, helped to stre ...

off the other!”and announcedthat onlyfourmonths after the founding of the ADAV,“passion alreadytakes up residenceinthe heart of ...