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  2. History of the socialist movement in the United States

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    Since the late 19th century, conservatives had used the term "socialism" (or "creeping socialism") as a means of dismissing spending on public welfare programs which could potentially enlarge the role of the federal government, or lead to higher tax rates.

  3. Socialism - Wikipedia

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    In his Dictionary of Socialism (1924), Angelo S. Rappoport analysed forty definitions of socialism to conclude that common elements of socialism include general criticism of the social effects of private ownership and control of capital—as being the cause of poverty, low wages, unemployment, economic and social inequality and a lack of ...

  4. The Fatal Conceit - Wikipedia

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    The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism is a book written by the economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek and edited by the philosopher William Warren Bartley. The book was first published in 1988 by the University of Chicago Press .

  5. History of socialism - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] In the 1912 United States presidential election, SPA candidate Eugene V. Debs received 5.99% of the popular vote (a total of 901,551 votes), while his total of 913,693 votes in the 1920 campaign, although smaller percentage-wise, remains the all-time high for a Socialist Party candidate in the United States. [173]

  6. Outline of socialism - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to socialism: Socialism – range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management [ 10 ] as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

  7. Communist Party USA and American labor movement (1919–1937)

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    The Communist Party USA and its allies played an important role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but wasn't successful either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda of fighting for socialism and full workers' control over industry, or in converting their influence in any particular union ...

  8. Socialist mode of production - Wikipedia

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    The Marxist view of socialism served as a point of reference during the socialist calculation debate. Marx himself did not use the term socialism to refer to this development. Instead, Marx called it a communist society that has not yet reached its higher-stage. [8] The term socialism was popularized during the Russian Revolution by Vladimir ...

  9. The Road Ahead: America's Creeping Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Road Ahead: America's Creeping Revolution is a 1949 book by American journalist John T. Flynn, [1] that argues that socialism was infiltrating into the politics of the United States. The book has had at least three printings, totaling over 500,000 copies.