{"id":2561,"date":"2018-07-07T12:03:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T09:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2018-07-07T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T09:03:37","slug":"the-gilded-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=2561","title":{"rendered":"The Gilded Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With its economic instability, mass immigration, corrupting influence of money on politics, and ever-increasing gap between the rich and everyone else, our current era bears more than a slight resemblance to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dubbed by Mark Twain the Gilded Age. There are also striking differences. Back then, larger-than-life radical organizers\u2014Eugene V. Debs, Emma Goldman, Bill Haywood, and others\u2014traversed the country, calling on the working class to rise up against its oppressors. Today\u2019s critics of the capitalist order such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren seem tame by comparison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">\u2014Eric Foner, review of Jacqueline Jones&#8216;\u00a0<em>Goddess of Anarchy<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2017\/12\/21\/lucy-parsons-street-fighting-woman\/\">New York Review of Books<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its economic instability, mass immigration, corrupting influence of money on politics, and ever-increasing gap between the rich and everyone else, our current era bears more than a slight resemblance to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dubbed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=2561\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}