Skip to Content
Search Icon
Issue 12 – Assumption 2022

Arts and Letters

Complete Social Despotism

On American radicals.

image

American Radicals: How Nineteenth Century Protest Shaped the Nation
Holly Jackson 
Crown, pp. 400, $28.00

Near the beginning of Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan, the film’s young protagonist Tom Townsend announces that he’s “a committed socialist, but not a Marxist.” Rather, as Tom goes on to say, his radicalism is inspired by one of Marx’s predecessors—the French theorist Charles Fourier. Shocked by this news, Tom’s acquaintance Charlie tries to talk sense into him.


You must or subscribe to read the rest of the article.

About the author

Daniel Luttrull

More By This Contributor