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It didn't happen here, why socialism failed in the United States, Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks

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It didn't happen here, why socialism failed in the United States, Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-359) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

It didn't happen here

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

43403442

Responsibility statement

Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks

Review

"This work sheds light on the chief factors that explain the failure of socialists to establish a durable party in the United States and provides greater insights into American society and politics. Drawing on rich contrasts with other industrialized countries and extensive comparisons within the United States at the state and city level, the authors eschew conventional explanations of socialism's demise to present a fuller understanding of how multiple factors - American values, political structure, and the split between the Socialist party and mainstream unions - combined to seal socialism's fate. Further chapters examine the distinctive character of American trade unions, immigration and the fragmentation of the American working class, Socialist strategies, and repression, concluding with a penetrating analysis of American political exceptionalism up to the present day."--Jacket

Sub title

why socialism failed in the United States

Table Of Contents

An exceptional nation -- The American party system -- The split between unions and the Socialist party -- Immigrants and socialism: double-edged effects -- Sectarians vs. reformists: were socialists undermined by their own strategy? -- Socialist sectarianism and communist opportunism in the thirties -- Political repression and socialism -- The end of political exceptionalism?

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