UCSB Hist 4c/Marcuse,
L15 OVERLAY
ABSOLUTISM
"L'état, c'est moi" (state = KING)
King: above the law ("legibus solutus")
Enlightenment->"democracy"
French rev.->nationalism (nation)
Industrialization->economic dynamism
"BONAPARTISM"
"It is with trinkets that mankind is governed"
rural conservatives & urban petty bourgeoisie
both feel threatened by industrial "proletariat"
modernization "from above" (bureaucratic)
Social Darwinism->imperialism
rev. in administration, communication media
WW1: economic coordination
TOTALITARIANISM
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer"
people = empire = leader
nation=STATE=party=powerholder
leader's will=the law (special goals)