@article{Smith, author = {Smith, David Livingstone}, title = {The challenge of Robert Langs}, series = {Free Association, No. 11 (1988), pp. 051-057.}, journal = {Free Association, No. 11 (1988), pp. 051-057.}, language = {en} } @article{Smith, author = {Smith, David}, title = {Anti-Authoritarian Marxism: Erich Fromm, Hilde Weiss, and the Politics of Radical Humanism}, series = {K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 131-165.}, journal = {K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 131-165.}, language = {en} } @article{Smith, author = {Smith, David Norman}, title = {The Agitator Supplies What the Base Demands: Trumpism Before and After Donald Trump}, series = {Critical Sociology, Vol. 50 (No. 4-5, 2024), pp. 813-843 [Online ISSN 1569-1632] [doi.org/10.1177/08969205231208921]}, journal = {Critical Sociology, Vol. 50 (No. 4-5, 2024), pp. 813-843 [Online ISSN 1569-1632] [doi.org/10.1177/08969205231208921]}, abstract = {The fierce loyalty of Donald Trump's base has long mystified his critics. For 8 years now, they have expressed puzzlement that his followers support him >despite everything< - despite his incendiary rhetoric, his misogyny, his racial prejudices, and his authoritarianism. In this paper, I argue that, in fact, Trump's hectic agitation is precisely what his base wants. My reading of the data - including data I gathered with my collaborator, Eric Hanley, in 2016 - is that Trump owes his demagogic success to the fact that he says what his followers want him to say and acts accordingly. Donald Trump, today's agitator par excellence, supplies what his base demands. Trump, in short, is less an architect of Trumpism than its reflex. However effectively he performs in the public arena, he remains an emissary, personifying a social movement that preceded him and will survive him. And that movement, I will argue, is authoritarian in a very specific sense - driven by a wish for a domineering leader who is loyal to his partisans and hostile to their adversaries. Analytic insight into this phenomenon is drawn, below, from a range of authors, including marketing professionals and critical theorists including Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno.}, language = {en} } @article{Smith, author = {Smith, David Norman}, title = {Introduction to Herbert Marcuse, >On the Critique of Sociology<}, series = {Mid-American Review of Sociology, Vol. 16, No. 2 (1992), pp. 1-13. [ISSN 0732913X] [jstor.org/stable/23254542]}, journal = {Mid-American Review of Sociology, Vol. 16, No. 2 (1992), pp. 1-13. [ISSN 0732913X] [jstor.org/stable/23254542]}, abstract = {Critical Theory was born at a dark moment in world history. The Weimar Republic in Germany had given way to National Socialism, fascism reigned in Italy, and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia had begun its descent into the whirlpool of Stalinism. It became clear that >class consciousness< does not spring fully formed from economic crisis, as many Marxists had imagined, and that socialist democracy is far more difficult to achieve than even its enemies had believed. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Germany, wherein 1933 the proudest and strongest labor movement in history fell victim to a grotesquely reactionary regime. Democracy in every form seemed alarmingly fragile, too feeble and embattled to resist the >dictatorship of the corporals< that Max Weber had feared. This was the context in which the renowned >Frankfurt Institute< began its odyssey from traditional to critical theory.}, language = {en} }