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

Chapter3draws on the memoirs of famous socialist leaders to arguefor the centralrole of emotional attachments in the making of p ...

umphs and defeats to the largernarrative of class struggle. The readers,inturn, wereabletodiscover the individuals behindwhat th ...

While Ostwaldpublished“authentic”voices from the workingclass along- sidevolumes on prostitution, homosexuality, and the Berlinb ...

literaryconventions might turn off some readers,Göhre in turn useshis introduc- tion to the bookto prevent misreadings of the wo ...

mar,and style. Interestingly,theserevisions are often mentioned in the workers’ own accounts of their extensive exchanges with t ...

the title. Mirroringthe wavesoflabor migration within central Europe, Göhre’s worker-writers came from diverse regions:Carl Fisc ...

want to show howayoung worker comesto socialism, how he feels, how he acts.”³⁰ The written exchanges between worker-writers and ...

workingclassfoundalarge andreceptive readership, especiallyamong Social Democrats; the book sawnumerous editions and translation ...

function,they became more diverse, with titlesrangingfromJosef Peukert’san- archist memoirErinnerungen eines Proletariersaus der ...

Chapter 8 The SocialistProject ofCulture and Education Socialism is morethanamereparty program.It is anoble cultural pursuit,asp ...

tural pursuit”and“spiritual moralforce”perfectly captures the shared sense of spiritual elevation (and moral righteousness) that ...

rangeofcultural organisations such as workers’sport clubs,choirs,dramatic societies etc. downto radio circles and esperanto[sic] ...

litical shortcomingsofthese parallel projects of culturalrefinement and class formation.Forthatreason, the nineteenth century di ...

two earlier Liebknecht speeches, the 18 71 “Zu Trutz und Schutz” (“ForOpposi- tion and Protection”)speech and the 1872“Wissen is ...

bearer of modernculture,”he insisted, the workingclasscould onlyrealize the emancipatory potential of learning underradicallydem ...

scholars to validateoppositional and alternative culturalpractices.Given the ori- gins of these debates in historicallyspecific ...

as“elements of political andgeneral education”or“elements of enlightenment and progress.”In bothcases,Bildungis seen as an integ ...

emphasized the workers’self-empowerment and the need for social and eco- nomic advancement.Manyofthese associations werefoundedw ...

formances,and tried to accommodate themwithin the distinctlylocal structures of working-class life.AccordingtoAbrams, an unshaka ...

els, travelogues, pulp fiction, and popularscience bookswerewidelyread; the classics, whether Marx or Goethe, remained on the sh ...