Contents
Acknowledgements VII
Abbreviations IX
List of Illustrations XI
Introduction 1
Part One:Imperial Germany
Chapter.The Threat of the Proletariat and the Discourse of the
Masses 33
Chapter.Proletarian Dreams: From MarxtoMarxism 49
Chapter.Emotional Socialism andSentimental Masculinity 64
Chapter.OnWorkersSinging in OneVoice 84
Chapter.The Proletarian Prometheus and Socialist Allegory 100
Chapter.Ferdinand Lassalle, the First SocialistCelebrity 120
Chapter.Re/WritingWorkers’Emotions 138
Chapter.The Socialist Project ofCulture and Education 155
Part Two:Weimar Republic
Chapter.RevolutionaryFantasy and Proletarian Masculinity 177
Chapter.The Revolutionary FantasyRevisited 193
Chapter.Franz Wilhelm Seiwert’sCritical Empathy 205