Maybe this CC room needs a history forum because public education has failed in that area. History of socialism did not begin with President Obama nor many of issues we have. Folks need to wake up in America because ignorance is dangerous. The tides are shifting in America.
Socialism in America
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Progress of socialism
The Socialist Party in America was born and grew dramatically between 1900 and 1912. Under the [COLOR=#009900 !important]charismatic leadership ofEugene V. Debs in 1912, 160 councilmen, 145 aldermen, one congressman, and 56 mayors, including Milwaukee, Wisconsin,Berkeley, California, and Schenectady, New York, were elected as Socialists. At the time, Socialists published 300 newspapers, including theAppeal of Reason, which was a Kansas-based publication with 700,000 subscribers. Membership in the Socialist Party totaled 125,000.
[COLOR=#009900 !important]Debs[/COLOR] converted to socialism while serving jail time for his part in the Pullman Strike in 1897, and began to edit the Appeal to Reasonpublication. From 1900 to 1920, he ran for president on the Socialist ticket while increasing membership to the Socialist Party tenfold. Although Debs insisted he was a Marxist, he spoke more about poverty and injustice than typical socialist concerns about the class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat (Marx).
In 1912, Debs received 900,000 votes, which was six percent of the presidential votes cast that year, principally for his stand against America`s involvement in World War I. Debsappealed to blue collar workers hungry for improved working conditions and higher wages, but also such intellectuals as authors Jack London and Upton Sinclair.
Prominently with President Theodore Roosevelt and through the 20th century`s [COLOR=#009900 !important]first years[/COLOR], the Progressive Movement came into view with its belief in “the perfectability of man, and in an open society where mankind was neither chained to the past nor condemned to a deterministic future; one which people were capable of changing their condition for better or worse.”
The Socialist Party was included within the Progressive Movement. The party dealt with American problems in an American manner. Unlike the Communist Party, the Socialist Party at that time felt no obligation to adhere to an international party line. For example, socialists and other progressives campaigned at the local level for municipal ownership of waterworks, gas and electric plants, and made good progress in such endeavors. In 1911, there were 18 Socialist candidates for mayor, and they nearly won the Cleveland, Ohio, and Los Angeles, California, mayoral races.
Articles below on Socialism:
Socialism in America
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Roots of socialism in America
The roots of socialism in America can be traced to the arrival of German immigrants in the 1850s when Marxian socialist unions began, such as the National Typographic Union in 1852, United Hatters of 1856, and Iron Moulders` Union of North America in 1859. Theodore H. White, author of Fire in the Ashes: Europe in Mid-Century (1953) wrote, "Socialism is the belief and the hope that by proper use of government power, men can be rescued from their helplessness in the wild cycling cruelty of depression and boom."Progress of socialism
The Socialist Party in America was born and grew dramatically between 1900 and 1912. Under the [COLOR=#009900 !important]charismatic leadership ofEugene V. Debs in 1912, 160 councilmen, 145 aldermen, one congressman, and 56 mayors, including Milwaukee, Wisconsin,Berkeley, California, and Schenectady, New York, were elected as Socialists. At the time, Socialists published 300 newspapers, including theAppeal of Reason, which was a Kansas-based publication with 700,000 subscribers. Membership in the Socialist Party totaled 125,000.
[COLOR=#009900 !important]Debs[/COLOR] converted to socialism while serving jail time for his part in the Pullman Strike in 1897, and began to edit the Appeal to Reasonpublication. From 1900 to 1920, he ran for president on the Socialist ticket while increasing membership to the Socialist Party tenfold. Although Debs insisted he was a Marxist, he spoke more about poverty and injustice than typical socialist concerns about the class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat (Marx).
In 1912, Debs received 900,000 votes, which was six percent of the presidential votes cast that year, principally for his stand against America`s involvement in World War I. Debsappealed to blue collar workers hungry for improved working conditions and higher wages, but also such intellectuals as authors Jack London and Upton Sinclair.
Prominently with President Theodore Roosevelt and through the 20th century`s [COLOR=#009900 !important]first years[/COLOR], the Progressive Movement came into view with its belief in “the perfectability of man, and in an open society where mankind was neither chained to the past nor condemned to a deterministic future; one which people were capable of changing their condition for better or worse.”
The Socialist Party was included within the Progressive Movement. The party dealt with American problems in an American manner. Unlike the Communist Party, the Socialist Party at that time felt no obligation to adhere to an international party line. For example, socialists and other progressives campaigned at the local level for municipal ownership of waterworks, gas and electric plants, and made good progress in such endeavors. In 1911, there were 18 Socialist candidates for mayor, and they nearly won the Cleveland, Ohio, and Los Angeles, California, mayoral races.
Articles below on Socialism:
- Towards a Socialist America | Andrew Wilkes - Huffington Post
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../towards-a-socialist-ame...
The Huffington Post
Sep 29, 2014 - "America can do better than capitalism". Richard Wolff declared these words at Riverside Church on January 22, 2012. His affirmation surfaced ...
Research New Age Socialism:
- The cloying embrace of the New Age | The Socialist Party of ...
www.worldsocialism.org › ... › 2000s › 2004 › No. 1195 March 2004
We as Socialists often appear alone in standing against this seeming tide of ... Surely this New Age is at worst harmless fun and at best a route to a new, gentler ...- The New Socialism - THE NEW YOGA
thenewyoga.org/the_new_socialism/index.htm
The New Socialism and 'The War Against Terror' ... The subtitle of DEEP SOCIALISM, "A New Manifesto of Marxist Ethics and ... From New Age to New Gnosis ...
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of Assisi
- The New Socialism - THE NEW YOGA
- The cloying embrace of the New Age | The Socialist Party of ...