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What would be the American Characteristics in a Socialism with American Characteristics?

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I think it would be easier to portray these people and communist/socialist as an extension of the revolution of the founder’s/the american project, then it would be to get people to reject the founders wholecloth.

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That’s partially the argument aziz Rana makes in the two faces of American freedom, that radicalizing republicanism in a truly emancipatory way is socialism, and there’s a variety of forgotten American socialist figures to draw from for that.

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I mean don’t forget people like William manning and Thomas Skidmore, Skidmores working man’s party in 1830 directly inspired marx to some extent.

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