Side by side with the Marxists of the northern cities, flourishing in the same situation and starting from the same premise, there... appeared at the beginning of the thirties the second of the anti-capitalist movements of the decade, the movement called Southern Agrarianism. If the Marxists wished to give power to the masses, the Agrarians meant to give it to an educated aristocracy ruling over an eighteenth-century economy. Where the Marxists foresaw an ever-growing concentration of industrial activity in units that were to increase in size, the Agrarians strove to break up the large productive units into groups of small ones, and, through decentralization, return to the society of Jefferson's time, when the great bulk of the people owned their own land. The Agrarians, consequently, looked as strenuously at the past as the Marxists did to the future. Where the Marxists drew their inspiration from the socialist thinkers of the nineteenth century, the Agrarians went back to Plato and his philosopher-kings vigorously trained to rule the state, to Carlyle and superman formulators of modern times, to Chesterton and Belloc and their strong religious orthodoxy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are both... forms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only helped to en...slave people, that it has but closed their eyes that they may not see how craftily they were made to submit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'll wager that it was impossible after we got mixed together to tell an anti from a suffragist by her clothes. There might have b...een a difference, though, in the expression of the faces and the shape of the heads.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These st...orms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the movement... in the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »