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« on: August 17, 2023, 02:30:17 AM » |
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« edited: August 17, 2023, 02:41:37 AM by Anthropogenic-Statism »
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It depends on whose views you'd want to know in 19th century Europe. Safe to say European reactionaries held the US in contempt as a product of the Atlantic Revolutions, especially early on. Marx for his part seemed to agree with a notion ascribed to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon that the US was "the most progressive nation in the world" in an 1846 letter to Pavel Annenkov, disagreeing with Proudhon more on his approach to ending slavery. He likely saw the US as among the nations closest to proletarian revolution with its bourgeois revolution, industrialization (not as much as Britain, which he was more familiar with and wrote about more, but a noticeable amount), and little in the way of a feudal-aristocratic order outside of LARPing Southern gentry.
The boring answer is that more Europeans would be likely to think this back then, especially those who would agree with Marxist historiography in considering bourgeois democracy to be to the left of the old feudal-aristocratic order. Fewer probably thought so as the century went on for European countries that responded to 1848 with reform.
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