Insurgent America
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Insurgent America
| Author | Alfred M. Bingham |
|---|---|
| Published | 1935 |
| Pages | 253 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Alfred M. Bingham’s 1935 argument that the decisive political force of the Depression was not a proletariat but a squeezed middle class, whose revolt would set the terms of whatever replaced laissez-faire — a period document of the American left’s search for a class base other than the industrial worker. |
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, in Marxism and Collective Psychology as the American case: what happens to a class-based theory of politics in a country whose insurgent class was the middle one. Shared March 2026; full transcription on The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
About this edition
Bingham was co-editor of the magazine Common Sense and the son of the Yale explorer and senator Hiram Bingham.
Connections
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this card came from.
- Capitalism — the order the book takes to be ending.
- Socialism — the alternative the middle-class revolt was expected to serve or defeat.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.