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
https://youtu.be/GdzTdve1n7c
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://books.google.com/books?id%3DZkEoAwAAQBAJ%26newbks%3D1%26newbks_redir%3D0%26printsec%3Dfrontcover&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1691757210901649&usg=AOvVaw3O70eY6nOuA-AznKgC9Aj6
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://books.google.com/books?id%3DKBueCgAAQBAJ%26newbks%3D1%26newbks_redir%3D0%26printsec%3Dfrontcover&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1691757210902630&usg=AOvVaw3pgQwzR8exSvtqdDLETdFw
https://therednation.org/revolutionary-socialism-is-the-primary-political-ideology-of-the-red-nation-2/
https://isreview.org/issue/103/sense-hope-and-possibility-solidarity/
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/franklin-rosemont-karl-marx-and-the-iroquois

Utopian socialism in America
https://youtu.be/80mtCNd-JEw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_socialist_movement_in_the_United_States

Militant labor in American history (and its repression)
https://books.google.com/books?id=PefFoPmOq5IC&printsec=frontcover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93CIO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
https://jacobin.com/2023/05/haymarket-affair-martyrs-memorial-history-chicago-may-day
https://jacobin.com/2020/06/police-united-states-strikebreaking-class-war

Eugene Debs
https://jacobin.com/2020/09/eugene-debs-democracy-antiwar-canton

Socialist/labor mobilization and progress
https://www.library.upenn.edu/news/workers-rights-socialism-afl
https://jacobin.com/2019/10/highlander-folk-school-socialist-party-new-deal

The red scares
https://jacobin.com/2019/12/red-scare-industrial-workers-of-the-world-iww
https://jacobin.com/2022/03/mccarthyism-huac-communists-blacklists-old-new-left

Hammer and Hoe
https://books.google.com/books?id=amC0CAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover

MLK quotes
https://mlkglobal.org/2017/11/23/martin-luther-king-on-capitalism-in-his-own-words/
https://mronline.org/2019/01/24/today-capitalism-has-out-lived-its-usefulness-martin-luther-king/

More sources
https://books.google.com/books?id=PefFoPmOq5IC&printsec=frontcover
https://jacobin.com/2021/08/oklahoma-green-corn-rebellion-washington-wwi-tenant-farmer-poverty-socialist-party-renters-union-working-class-union-wcu
https://jacobin.com/2016/04/bernie-sanders-young-peoples-socialist-league-new-york
https://jacobin.com/2021/07/socialist-party-red-states-debs-ameringer-history-rural-socialism
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/let-them-tremble-author-tony-pecinovsky-discusses-new-book-on-cpusa/
https://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-american-socialism/