San Antonio College Library

Based on his own participation in the movement and on theoretical issues that have been debated since the turn of the century, Howe presents a searching review of American socialism--its past, present, and future. The essays deal with the promise of the Debs era (1912-1920), the disaster of 1936, when the socialist party broke with organized labor and opposed FDR's re-election, the formation of the popular front with the Communist Party in the late...

"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...

"Drawing on extensive archival material and oral history, Robbie Lieberman illustrates how grassroots peace activism in the United States became associated with Communist subversion after World War II, enabling proponents of the cold war virtually to silence to opposition until the early 1960s."--Jacket.

"The utopian socialism of Charles Fourier spread throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, but it was in the United States that it generated the most intense excitement. Carl J. Guarneri traces the American Fourierist movement from its roots in the religious, social, and economic upheavals of the 1830s, through its bold communal experiments of the 1840s, to its lingering twilight after the Civil War. Guarneri demonstrates that Fourierist communitarianism...