26. Kendall: "it would seem that it was the Southerners who were the anti-Caesars of pre-Civil War days, and that Lincoln was the Caesar"
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27. Kendall: "the Caesarism we all need to fear is the contemporary Liberal movement, dedicated like Lincoln to egalitarian reforms"
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28. Kendall: "sanctioned by mandates emanating from national majorities, a [Civil Rights] movement which is Lincoln's legitimate offspring."
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29. So, for Burnham Caesarism was Eisenhower's anti-McCarthyism, for Kendall Caesarism was the Civil Rights movement.
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30. Why did Burnham and Kendall revive the tradition of (small-r) republican anti-Caesarism in 1950s and early 1960s?
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@ToryAnarchist usefully reminded me Burnham's anti-Caesarism traceable in part to Trotsky's critique of Stalinism (JB was Trot in 1930s)3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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32. But while Bonapartism is longstanding idea in Marxist tradition, Burnham's (and Kendall's) Caesarism was intentionally anti-Marxist.
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33. In era where USA was being criticized by liberals & left for being insufficiently democracy, Burnham & Kendall offered counter-narrative
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34. "Caesarism" is way of critiquing American polity for becoming too democratic, too responsive to popular will.
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35. "Caesarism" implies a paradise of republican perfection that we've fallen from. Hence a useful conservative idea.
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36. Finally, "Caesarism" blames foreign policy over-reach on ambitious executive, not on more deeply entrenched imperial system.
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37. Although I oppose many of the policies
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38. Are we concerned just about the Imperial Presidency or with the American Empire?
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