Word: proudhon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When French Socialist Pierre Joseph Proudhon [1809-1865] inflamed the mobs of Paris with his "the great are only great because we are on our knees-let us rise!", he turned idealism into a bloodbath. So, too, misdirected Fidel Castro, not the head of a mob, but the tail that it wagged, becomes the latest 20th century champion of "People's Democracy...
Freethinker Courbet, once praised by Socialist Philosopher Pierre Joseph Proudhon as "the first true socialist painter," plunged into the Paris Commune uprising of 1871, was elected president of the short-lived Federal Commission of Artists. Later, when the conservatives returned to power, they accused Courbet (unjustly) of destroying Napoleon I's bronze column in Place Vendôme. Imprisoned, Courbet later went into exile in Switzerland, after the French government had sent him a bill for restoring the column and confiscated his property. Plagued by money worries and by waning powers, he stepped up his daily wine ration...
...sway and spellbind. Standing, on another day, atop a rain-drenched knoll with his Adventist father and nine of the faithful awaiting the second coming of Christ, he feels his faith oozing away. He turns to the prophets of social revolution, soaks up the teachings of Proudhon, Marx and Bakunin. and becomes a labor organizer. But a violent and bitter strike convinces him that his new gods are false. At novel's end, Chester Nimmo, over 21, is clean of illusions", and ready for whatever further adventures life and Author Gary have in store for him. That there will...