1st Edition
The Ideology of the Socialist Party of America, 1901T1917
By Anthony V. Esposito
Copyright 1997
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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Examining the propaganda literature issued by the Socialist Party before World War I, this study investigates how the party shaped its appeal to an American audience. With the rise of an anti-monopoly reform movement after 1908 that rejected all notions of class, and socialist success in some city elections after 1910, the party confronted growing liberal strength. By 1912-13 this confrontation... Read more
1 Discovering the Class Struggle, 1890-1899, 2 Free Labor or Wage Slavery, 1899-1904, 3 The Class Struggle in Politics, 1904-1909, 4 Class Acts: Open Shops and Industrial Unions, 1905-1909, 5 A Temporary Rapprochement, 6 The Ideology of Mass Action, 7 Collectivism, War and Class Struggle, 1913-1917, 8 Epilogue: Socialism, Liberalism and the Taboo of Class
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Anthony V. Esposito (Author)
"...this is an addition to the historiographical debate which breaks some new ground." -- Labor History
