Replacing One Flavor of Despotism with Another Is No Improvement (Interview)

Our generation has little real-world experience to deal with reactionary movements and their effects. But we ignore such movements at our peril. I show that such rightist thought has deep roots tracing to the early 19th century, when the followers of Hegel split into right and left branches, depending on whether one believed that the Prussian state and church did or did not provide the end point of cultural evolution. The rightists went one way and the left went another.