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326: The Year of Revolutions: 1848

The Rest Is History

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The Death of Hecker Bower

Hecker represents that violent revolution by direct action, which Bloom believes is doomed to fail. But it's Hecker who ends up shaping the kind of memory of what it means to be a revolutionary. And there are lots of cartoons and caricatures of him - but he still has a certain raw appeal. A sort of very basic question. Are we able to say what they want? In Germany specifically, you've got a real combination of socialism, radicalism, liberalism, and nationalism,. So is there ever a common, really a common program in Germany, or is it too confused and chaotic for that?

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