The Personal is Political. The Political is Personal.

 
"The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism"

Soon the Woodman was all tin. . . . In this way Eastern witchcraft dehumanized a simple laborer so that the faster and better he worked the more quickly he became a kind of machine. Here is a Populist view of evil Eastern influences on honest labor which could hardly be more pointed.

Henry M. Littlefield's classic 1964 essay can be found here.

A 1994 essay about the essay can be found here.


posted by TiR at 8:45 PM