Word: egalitarians
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...giving end of modernization, got a great deal more fun out of Sino-American relations. In the privileged status thrust upon them by the treaty system, most Americans enjoyed their contact with China, the chance to be an upper-class foreigner riding in a rickshaw while still remaining an egalitarian grassroots democrat in one's own concience. For an average American to go abroad and find himself a rich man by comparison with the local people is also quite enjoyable. The Chinese were very polite, and countless Americans made warm friends among them. The American people built up a genuine...
...flowering of New England, intellectuals of the "clerisy" made great contributions and earned respect, including Franklin, Jefferson, William James. At times, the U.S. was governed by Presidents of intellectual stature, including Taft and Wilson. But there was also the old pragmatic suspicion of the intellectual. America's egalitarian faith that every man is as good as his neighbor, and no better, led to distrust of the intellectual who, by claiming special knowledge, also seemed to claim special distinction...
...parallels between Indian ex-Untouchables and American Negroes are clear enough without being spelled out. The Indian government has taken fairly substantial steps, including preferential hiring, to alleviate the lot of the ex-Untouchables. But as Isaac point out, anti-Negro discrimination is at variance with America's egalitarian ideology, while Untouchability in India is sanctioned by millenia of tradition, custom, holy writ and backwardness itself...
Glossing over its dark side-the dogmatism, the factional fights, the bloodshed-the author argues that the revolutionaries, whatever their vices, fought for an egalitarian system, while the antirevolutionaries, whatever their virtues, were merely defending the aristocratic society. Palmer sees France's upheaval as a revolution of Western Civilization that has profoundly influenced "all revolutions since 1800, in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa," and he follows its meanderings until the dawn of the 19th century...
...Eastman has written his autobiography; it is long, racy, candid and vain. It has the egalitarian earnestness of a Tom Paine, the lighthearted sexual adventurousness of a Casanova, the self-preoccupation of a Cellini. The book is also an important document, because Eastman, who observed the early Bolsheviks closely in Russia, was prematurely antiCommunist. In time a whole generation of American radicals would repeat his disillusionment and break with the Communist Party...