Western Technology and Socialism
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1. The encounter between Western technological industrialism and socialism's ideological protest against it caught non-Western imagination. Non-Western elites absorbed Western-style modernism while also engaging in "selective negation" of values associated with modernity by way of a new "collective identity" associated with socialism (Eisenstadt 221), while also asserting anti-Western attitudes, or a "protest" stance against the West. It was a way of retaining indigenous culture identity while also incorporating modernist attributes into idealized/utopian traditions of dominant culture. Eisenstadt cites the examples of Russia and China without citing cultural referents of collective identity that would transcend Western origins of both socialism and modernity--Mother Russia in one case and the Middle Kingdom in the other.2. The big picture of FDR's response to the collapse of international trade during the Depression is t
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