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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (43363)3/8/2001 8:47:37 PM
From: Jerome  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
The US has never even thought about socialism

The politicians didn't... but American Literature, Song and ART gave it a lot of mentions

For literature the was Grapes of Wrath, Canary Row, Tobacco Road, and the Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

For Art there was Diego Rivera that painted that huge several hundred foot long mural in the Detroit Museum of ART. Henry Ford hated that Mural and offered huge donations to the museum to have it over painted. The mural is still there and Henry Ford is gone.Diego Rivera was considered a socialist, and communist, and everything else the Republicans at that time feared.

For weekly literature I think there was a magazine called the Mercury. Very socialistic as I recall. Some older thread viewers might correct me on this.

For Song: I'll have to do some research as none come to mind at the moment.

For public movements the was the AFL, CIO, Coal and Steel workers Union. At that time (not now) those organizations made no bones about their socialistic leanings.

Two things changed all that: The new Deal, and World War 11

Perhaps the frequent thread posters could post their earliest political recollection. My earliest recollection was V.E. Day followed by VJ Day. I was six at the time. I got to read a lot about politics and business at that time because I was one of the smallest baseball players in the neighborhood, and when the afternoon paper came out the big guys got the sport section and the crosswords and I was left with the business news and the editorial section. By the time I got to high school I got to like those two sections.

Regards, Jerome
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