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Steinbeck: “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”


I was pretty surprised when I learned about Huey Long - he was a genuinely left-wing US pre-war politician (including Governor of Louisiana and Senator).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long

Unfortunately he was assassinated in 1935 :-(




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