How Left Is The American Left...And Why Didn't Socialism Catch On Here?

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Every minute of every day, the media and most Americans yell about how the Democrats are going "too far left." For the rest of the world, this is an absurd statement, but the average American believes it...why? In this episode, we're talking about the Democrats, how left-wing they really are, and why socialism has never really found a foothold in the United States.
How Left Is The American Left...And Why Didn't Socialism Catch On Here? - Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:
Yugopnik’s video (on the red scare)
• Why are Americans so a...
Wikipedia/Political Compass
en.wikipedia.o...
www.politicalc...
www.politicalc...
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en.wikipedia.o...
Quick note about Bernie & social democracy
www.theglobali...
qz.com/1805692...
UK politics
ucrel.lancs.ac....
labour.org.uk/...
www.bbc.com/ne...
www.bbc.com/ne...
en.wikipedia.o...
EU Parliament
www.europarl.e...
Eric Foner’s take
www.jstor.org/...
Why is there no socialist USA?
doi.org/10.117...
www.taylorfran...
(before you read ^) www.eh.net/pag...
books.google.c...
books.google.b...
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