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The First Three Years of Radical Presence

Donald W. Katzner

in At the Edge of Camelot: Debating Economics in Turbulent Times

The arrival of the radical faculty and the radical graduate students that followed them exacerbated the tensions and turmoil in the Department. In this environment, a new Ph.D. program in radical ... More

The arrival of the radical faculty and the radical graduate students that followed them exacerbated the tensions and turmoil in the Department. In this environment, a new Ph.D. program in radical political economics was developed and the relations between the radical graduate students and the faculty as a whole were begun to be worked out. Later, the tensions in the Department erupted in a major and very bitter fight over the award of tenure to two nonradical faculty members.Less

The Liturgical Impact of the Oxford Movement

Nigel Yates

in Buildings, Faith, and Worship

The liturgical revolution of the second half of the 19th century was the most violent the Church of England had experienced since the Reformation. Not all of this was attributable to the Oxford ... More

The liturgical revolution of the second half of the 19th century was the most violent the Church of England had experienced since the Reformation. Not all of this was attributable to the Oxford Movement, in its origins a small and obscurantist pressure group whose theological outlook was profoundly conservative. However, the movement unleashed other forces within both Church and nation anxious to break away from what they regarded as the mundaneness of official religion in England over the previous century and a half. Some were theological radicals anxious to take the rationalism of the 18th-century Church one stage further. Some were political radicals who wanted to reform the Church. Some were romantics who wanted the Church to return to the perceived orthodoxy of the Caroline divines or the ceremonial splendour of the Middle Ages. All these pressure groups vied with each other for power over the Church of England after 1820, and all could count their successes.Less

Introduction

in Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture

This introductory chapter discusses the radical political activity and print culture that arose in Britain in the late nineteenth century. It defines the term slow print as print that actively ... More

This introductory chapter discusses the radical political activity and print culture that arose in Britain in the late nineteenth century. It defines the term slow print as print that actively opposed literary and journalistic mass production; it was often explicitly political in objective, as socialist, anarchist, and other radical groups came to believe that large-scale mass-oriented print was no way to bring about revolutionary social changes. By focusing on the literary culture of the radical press, the book suggests that literature was a crucial means by which the turn-of-the-century radical counterpublic defined itself against capitalist mass print culture. An overview of the subsequent chapter is also presented.Less

The American Economics Profession

Donald W. Katzner

in At the Edge of Camelot: Debating Economics in Turbulent Times

This chapter summarizes the evolution of the American economics profession from 1885 to the present. It notes the efforts to suppress the free cultivation of ideas, in particular those associated ... More

This chapter summarizes the evolution of the American economics profession from 1885 to the present. It notes the efforts to suppress the free cultivation of ideas, in particular those associated with Marxism, and its failure as a profession to anticipate the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession that started in January 2008. A brief account of the denial of tenure to Samuel Bowles at Harvard University is provided, an explanation is given for the subsequent hiring of a large group of radical economists at the University of Massachusetts and not elsewhere, and the conversion of three economists from traditional economics to radical political economics is described.Less

Reaping the Whirlwind: Radical Talk and the Problem of Justice

Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell

in The Murder of King James I

The 1626 dissolution of Parliament was the key turning point of Charles's reign. Frustrated in their desire for justice and convinced of Buckingham's role in James'murder, many of Charles' subjects ... More

The 1626 dissolution of Parliament was the key turning point of Charles's reign. Frustrated in their desire for justice and convinced of Buckingham's role in James'murder, many of Charles' subjects engaged in disillusioned and seditious talk. This chapter considers such talk in order to trace the capacity of elite and plebeian English men and women to engage in radical political thought. Most English discourse on the problem of justice denied was anxious rather than regicidal. Nonetheless, it played with dangerous ideas about armed resistance as it continued to demonize Buckingham as the root cause of the kingdom's suffering. At least one contemporary reader of Eglisham came to believe that the secret history of James I's murder had implicated Charles as well as Buckingham, but for the time being most contemporaries remained preoccupied with the duke, and the image of Buckingham the poisoner became a prominent part of the monstrous portraits fashioned by libellers and rumour-mongers during the turbulent final months of his life.Less

Self-Appropriation and Liberation: Philosophizing in the Light of Catonsville

James L. Marsh

in Faith, Resistance, and the Future: Daniel Berrigan's Challenge to Catholic Social Thought

This chapter argues that self-appropriation, from below, can be fruitfully complimented by a prophetic Berriganian theology of liberation from above. Marsh’s formula to express this relationship is ... More

This chapter argues that self-appropriation, from below, can be fruitfully complimented by a prophetic Berriganian theology of liberation from above. Marsh’s formula to express this relationship is that intellectual, moral, and religious conversion should lead to radical political conversion. To further deepen and enrich the relationship between self-appropriation and liberation, Marxian social theory is used to understand and criticize capitalism, imperialism, and militarism. Marsh further stresses that the events of Catonsville can serve to bring into question an overly comfortable relationship of Catholic universities and Catholic academics to the secular city. In such accommodation, is the academic mission compromised? How freely and comprehensively can the desire to know operate when it is constrained by the goals and practices of empire?Less

“Ballad for Americans”: The Music of the Popular Front

Peter Gough and Peggy Seeger

in Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West

This chapter argues that overtly political themes never dominated Federal One productions. Yet, some of the beliefs espoused by the 1930s Left took root and found appeal among subsequent generations ... More

This chapter argues that overtly political themes never dominated Federal One productions. Yet, some of the beliefs espoused by the 1930s Left took root and found appeal among subsequent generations of Americans. Much as pre-World War I bohemians saw many of their ideas absorbed into the mass culture of the 1920s, so did the goals and convictions of the 1930s Left enter mainstream social movements of the post-World War II period. These causes found inspiration to varying degrees in musical expression, as well as particular elements of the radical political activism of the 1930s. Though notably less contentious than other WPA cultural productions, the Federal Music programs in the regional West should also be viewed as harbingers of these later social developments.Less

What Works? Reform and Repression in Prison Programs

Lee Bernstein

in America Is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s

This chapter describes how the Attica Brothers reacted to and amplified the goals spearheaded on the West Coast as the culmination of their immersion in radical political theory and prison activism. ... More

This chapter describes how the Attica Brothers reacted to and amplified the goals spearheaded on the West Coast as the culmination of their immersion in radical political theory and prison activism. In the immediate aftermath of the uprising, correctional authorities made Attica a living hell for its inmates. The uprising left eleven employees of the facility and twenty-nine inmates dead. Despite the creation of an official state commission, the only short-term change at Attica was the erection of new gun towers. Over time, the uprising left another legacy: the correctional facility met several of the inmates' demands, particularly those that affected cultural and educational programs. The Attica prisoners proposed to “modernize the inmate education system.” In the spring of 1972, one winter removed from the murders of the previous September, the New York State Council on the Arts provided funds to start a writing workshop at the facility.Less

Debating the Crisis

Edmund Heery

in Framing Work: Unitary, Pluralist and Critical Perspectives in the 21st Century

This chapter considers how unitarists, pluralists, and CLS have responded to the global financial crisis and subsequent policies of austerity. The review considers how each frame has explained the ... More

This chapter considers how unitarists, pluralists, and CLS have responded to the global financial crisis and subsequent policies of austerity. The review considers how each frame has explained the outbreak of the crisis, researched its effects and offered proposals for its resolution. The main thesis of the chapter is that the global financial crisis has provided a fresh opportunity for the three traditions to reaffirm their core assumptions and arguments: the crisis has not led to an epistemological break in the study of industrial relations. It is argued that unitarists have tended to view the crisis in Schumpeterian terms, as an opportunity to introduce new forms of management; pluralists have expressed grave concern at the dismantling of systems of collective bargaining in the wake of the crisis and called for re-regulation; and CLS has viewed the crisis as providing the context for a radical counter-movement embracing new forms of protest.Less

Mid-Nineteenth-Century Immigrant Francophone Authors

Catharine Savage Brosman

in Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study

This chapter examines three minor authors and two important novelists, all of whom immigrated to Louisiana and wrote in French. Charles Testut, a journalist, poet, and novelist, is examined ... More

This chapter examines three minor authors and two important novelists, all of whom immigrated to Louisiana and wrote in French. Charles Testut, a journalist, poet, and novelist, is examined especially for his long epic novel Le Vieux Salomon, which has points in common with Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Testut’s quasi-Christian socialism and Masonic leanings are identified. Louis-Armand Garreau’s historical novel Louisiana and his short stories, including “Bras-coupé,” receive detailed commentary. The radical political views of these two writers are noted, and their repeated denunciations of slavery and other sorts of oppression are stressed. The neo-Marxist social theory of the Frankfort School is cited as a grid by which to read Garreau.Less