Bismarck Had Cunningly Taught The Parties Not To Aim At National Appeal But To Represent Interests. They Remained Class Or Sectional Pressure-groups Under The Republic. This Was Fatal, For It Made The Party System, And With It Democratic Parliamentarianism, Seem A Divisive Rather Than A Unifying Factor. Worse: It Meant The Parties Never Produced A Leader Who Appealed Beyond The Narrow Limits Of His Own Following.

-Paul Johnson

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Bismarck Had Cunningly Taught The Parties Not

Paul Johnson

Bismarck Had Cunningly Taught The Parties Not To Aim At National Appeal But To Represent Interests. They Remained Class Or Sectional Pressure-groups Under The Republic. This Was Fatal, For It Made The Party System, And With It Democratic Parliamentarianism, Seem A Divisive Rather Than A Unifying Factor. Worse: It Meant The Parties Never Produced A Leader Who Appealed Beyond The Narrow Limits Of His Own Following.

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If Anti-semitism Is A Variety Of Racism, It Is A Most Peculiar Variety, With Many Unique Characteristics. In My View As A Historian, It Is So Peculiar That It Deserves To Be Placed In A Quite Different Category. I Would Call It An Intellectual Disease, A Disease Of The Mind, Extremely Infectious And Massively Destructive.

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