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- Title: Proudhon, Public Policy, And American Political Traditions (Report)
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 328 KB
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Proudhon, Public Policy, and American Political Traditions Socialism failed in the United States. As a political and social movement it never exerted the same level of influence on public affairs as it did, and continues to do, in nations across the world. As historians of American public policy Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks point out, the seeds of socialism in the United States have, in effect, been cast on barren soil. In their work It Didn't Happen Here, Lipset and Marks document the depth of American resistance to socialism. Although some movement in the direction of socialism has occurred in American political history, in all, socialism has made remarkably little progress. Indeed, the difficulty of developing socialism in the United States was noted in the earliest days of the worldwide socialist movement, as Engels himself remarked with vexation the resistance in America to socialist agitation and the development of class consciousness. (1) In the following decades, as Lipset and Marks demonstrate, the United States has experienced little essential change in the direction of full scale socialism. (2)