America's Forgotten Socialist History

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America's Forgotten Socialist History – Second Thought
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From our very earliest education Americans are told that the US has never been and will never be a socialist country. While it's true that the US has never been governed by a socialist party, it's impossible to look at US history and say we've never had strong socialist movements and notable socialist figures. Let's take a look!

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Citations and Further Reading:

Socialist Orgs To Consider
https://www.cpusa.org
https://pslweb.org
https://frso.org
https://www.dsausa.org

Indigenous Socialism in America
   • Pre-Colonial Socialism and the Effect...  
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://...
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://...
https://therednation.org/revolutionar...
https://isreview.org/issue/103/sense-...
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...

Utopian socialism in America
   • History of Socialism in America  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

Militant labor in American history (and its repression)
https://books.google.com/books?id=Pef...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL%E2%...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymark...
https://jacobin.com/2023/05/haymarket...
https://jacobin.com/2020/06/police-un...

Eugene Debs
https://jacobin.com/2020/09/eugene-de...

Socialist/labor mobilization and progress
https://www.library.upenn.edu/news/wo...
https://jacobin.com/2019/10/highlande...

The red scares
https://jacobin.com/2019/12/red-scare...
https://jacobin.com/2022/03/mccarthyi...

Hammer and Hoe
https://books.google.com/books?id=amC...

MLK quotes
https://mlkglobal.org/2017/11/23/mart...
https://mronline.org/2019/01/24/today...

More sources
https://books.google.com/books?id=Pef...
https://jacobin.com/2021/08/oklahoma-...
https://jacobin.com/2016/04/bernie-sa...
https://jacobin.com/2021/07/socialist...
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/...
https://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of...


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