But did he say something like that? Was he an admirer of Hegel?
Hegel....excellent focus.
More the father of the Democrat Party than Andrew Jackson was.
1. The 19th Century found the center of learning in Germany. There, the finest institutions of learning, the most progressive....in every sense....theories about education, about governing, about life, and here was where many, especially the aristocrats of every Western nation sent their scions to be educated.
2. Woodrow Wilson learned administration under the tutelage of Richard Ely at Johns Hopkins who had himself studied under European specialists such as Bluntschli at Heidelberg. And the intellectual tradition in which he studied was both Hegelian and historicist. In the ‘Study’, Wilson was quite candid about the novelty of his ideas, confessing that the science of administration ‘is a foreign science, speaking very little the language of English or American principle. . . . It has been developed by French and German professors.’
Woodrow Wilson: The Nation's Worst President III - Behind Blue Lines
3. W.E.B. DuBois was a Socialist and Radical Democrat, who could trace his root to Germany.
DuBois had studied at the University of Berlin, and this itself was the almost universal among early progressives, who envied Bismarck’s welfare state, and Hegel’s philosophy. Hegel introduced a system for understanding the
history of philosophy and the world itself, often described as a "progression in which each successive movement emerges as a resolution to the contradictions inherent in the preceding movement"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Wikipedia
4.The source of Progressive ideas was Germany, specifically the philosophy of Hegel, and this euro-thinking placed the ruler above the ruled: Germans have a history of accepting authoritarian rule.
" It was initially an academic phenomenon far removed from American politics. Particularly in the post–Civil War American university, professors — many of whom had obtained their graduate
training in German universities, and whose thought reflected the “intoxicating effect of the undiluted Hegelian philosophy upon the American mind,” as progressive Charles Merriam once put it — articulated
a critique of America that was as deep as it was wide. It began with a conscious rejection of the natural-rights principles of the American founding and the promotion of a new understanding of freedom, history, and the state in their stead. From this foundation, the progressives then criticized virtually every aspect of our traditional way of life, recommending reforms or “social reorganization” on a sweeping scale, the primary engine of which was to be a new, “positive” role for the state."
The Refounding of America | National Review
If you have been tricked into voting Democrat…..didn’t ideas like censorship of free speech, choosing favorites based on their skin color, and all sorts of mandates,….give you a clue that these are un-American????
