Populism: II

1. The Crisis of the "Producer"
   1. The Ideal--Control of the Fruits of One's Own Labor
   2. The Reality--Rule by "Parasites"
   3. The End of the American Experiment?
2. Populists and the Marketplace
   1. Not Anti-Market, BUT
   2. Hostile to Private Control of Market Institutions
      1. Monopoly Power Shackling Free Exchange
      2. Government Control Lending "Democratic" Accountability
3. Populist Contradictions
   1. Fighting "Big Business" With "Big Government"
   2. Attack on Property Rights
      1. As Threat to "Independence"
      2. Do Tenants and Sharecroppers Have Rights to the Land?
   3. The "Producer" Paradox"
      1. "Producers" as "The People"; BUT
      2. Populism for Independent Producers
         1. Preoccupation With Exchange
         2. Irrelevance of Exchange Issues to Employees
   4. Populists and "Subordinate" Producers
      1. Blacks
         1. Effort at Coalition
         2. Fundamental Divisions
            1. Racial Issues
            2. Labor Issues
      2. Industrial Employees
         1. Overtures, BUT
         2. Mutual Lack of Sympathy
4. The Populists as a Political Party
   1. The Populist Dilemma
      1. Claim to be "The People," BUT
      2. A Political Minority
         1. Opposition--Use of Fraud, Intimidation, Race Baiting
         2. Programmatic Need for National Power
   2. Strategic Choices
      1. Hold Fast to Program
      2. Compromise--The "Silver Panacea"
         1. Breaking the Hold of Gold, BUT
         2. Without Expanding Government
      3. The Final Move--Fusion With the Democrats (1896)
      4. The Collapse of the Party
5. The Populist Legacy
   1. A Failed Restoration
   2. A Social Crisis--Toward Disfranchisement