TFSmith121
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Shhh - you're challenging a meme RWers have held dear
Shhh - you're challenging a meme RWers have held dear since 1932... next thing you know, you'll suggest Chiang Kai-Shek was responsible for China!We all know it was commies in the state department!
And flouride.
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All this business about the New Deal being modeled after German, Italian, or Russian models is IMO completely misguided. (Not surprisingly, it is more popular with crank journalists than with professional historians.) It not only overlooks the roots of New Deal programs in the TR and Wilson administrations but ignores that insofar as the New Dealers had a foreign model, it was social democratic Scandinavia, with its successful cooperatives and strong labor movement and its "limited but robust" state enterprise. https://books.google.com/books?id=_L-rj3VLlYMC&pg=PA5 Marquis Childs' *Sweden: The Middle Way* instantly became a favorite book of the New Dealers.
As William Leuchtenberg wrote,
"Hardheaded, 'anti-utopian,' the New Dealers nonetheless had their Heavenly City: the greenbelt town, clean, green, and white, with children playing in light, airy, spacious schools; the government project at Longview, Washington, with small houses , each of different design, colored roofs, and gardens of flowers and vegetables; the Mormon villages of Utah that M. L. Wilson kept in his mind's eye--immaculate farmsteads on broad, rectangular streets; most of all, the Tennessee Valley, with its model town of Norris, the tall transmission towers, the white dams, the glistening wire strands, the valley where 'a vision of villages and clean small factories has been growing into the minds of thoughtful men.'55 Scandinavia was their model abroad, not only because it summoned up images of the countryside of Denmark, the beauties of Stockholm, not only for its experience with labor relations and social insurance and currency reform, but because it represented the "middle way" of happy accommodation of public and private institutions the New Deal sought to achieve. 'Why,' inquired Brandeis, 'should anyone want to go to Russia when one can go to Denmark?'56" http://tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu/NASD/d2...ed1d/SRV/ulib/xml/285/files1/TXT/00000377.txt
Shhh - you're challenging a meme RWers have held dear since 1932... next thing you know, you'll suggest Chiang Kai-Shek was responsible for China!We all know it was commies in the state department!
And flouride.
Best,