It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States (Norton Paperback)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (849 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393322548 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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This broad but unambitious survey addresses one of the classic questions of American historiography: What accounts for the weakness of working-class radicalism in the U.S.? Preferring to restate the highlights of an admittedly worked-over literature on the subject rather than make significant new arguments of their own, Lipset (professor of public policy at George Mason University) and Marks (political science at UNC-Chapel Hill) present a "political sociology" of socialism's American flop. (July) Copyright 200
"Thorough analysis of complex subject, tho rather laborious" according to Richard E. Hegner. The authors take on the perennial question of why a strong socialist movement never developed in the United States from virtually every imaginable angle--including American "exceptionalism," our electoral system, American federalism, the nature of unionism in the U.S., persection of leftists, etc. The emphasis here is on thorough--they have obviously reviewed a. It Already Happened: How Socialism Succeeded in the U.S. Copiously footnoted and annotated, Marks and Lipset give a comprehensive description of why socialism failed in America. I learned a lot more about the history of the US, and the nature of socialism. Through comparison to the situation in other countries, the authors make a powerful case that it failed because of the mistakes within the Socialist Party- where i. Socialism in the American Political System Steven S. Berizzi This ambitious and generally excellent book by two veteran political sociologists seeks to explain why the United States, alone among industrial societies, lacks a significant socialist movement or labor party. According to Seymour Martin Lipset, who currently teaches at George Mason University of Virginia, and Gary Marks of the University of North Carolina, Ch
Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks "survey with subtlety and shrewd judgment the various explanations" (Wall Street Journal) for this phenomenon of American political exceptionalism. "Clearly written, intelligent, filled with new information" (Times Literary Supplement), this "splendidly convincing" (Michael Kazin, Georgetown University) work eschews conventional arguments about socialism's demise to present a fuller understanding of how multiple factorspolitical structure, American values, immigration, and the split between the Socialist party and mainstream unionscombined to seal socialism's fate. "This impressive workoffers paths toward new and rich understandings of American history."The New York Times Book Review Why socialism has failed to play a significant role in the United Statesthe most developed capitalist industrial society and hence, ostensibly, fertile ground for socialismhas been a critical question of American history and political development. "In peak form, two