Did he have to call for a backup squad car?![]()
Supposedly it was the spark that ignited the decades-long struggle between Communism and "Americanism".
Did he have to call for a backup squad car?![]()
The reason that there is not "Socialism in America" is that, by and large, Americans have been taught to hate socialism.
More seriously Debs, the IWW, and the Socialist movement right up until the Red Scare had a pretty sizable following with lots of room for growth.
No, not really, they'd peaked in the 1910's. Debs did alright for himself in 1920 only as a lingering reaction, but the fragmentation of the Far Left was going to happen and when it did the whole thing was going to go crashing down. Now Debs might have been able to do better in say, 1912 had Roosevelt not been in the Race, but it wasn't the sort of long term, entrenched growth that a Socialist Party would need to keep going in the US.
And the fact that most of the Socialist Party was thrown in prison on spurious charges, driven out of the country, or killed outright had nothing to do with that collapse![]()