As an industrial giant at the forefront of a Major Economic revolution, and according to his ideological worldview we should have produced radical socialist and communist movements. A couple of things were wrong with that comment. There was an american left. There was a socialist party. It was even winning elections on a city, state, and ultimately a couple of congressman. There were real communists. 1860, there were communists clubs in several major American Cities come marxist communist clubs. First International Working association was at home in the u. S. , and indeed for a decade there was a coalition of european socialists and coming , some american reformers of whom figured in my book on american reform. The sociologist was less concerned about this, but there were extremes on the right in america. Arch conservatives, libertarians differed from anarchists i will lump them in with anarchists in a bit, but extreme libertarians who believed private property was sanctified you will
Ronald i am going to begin in 1906. A german sociologist and historian published a collection of essays. One of those essays translated into english as, why is there no socialism in the United States . He was baffled, seeing america as an industrial giant at the forefront of a Major Economic revolution, and according to his ideological worldview, we should have produced radical socialist and communist movements, as in europe. A couple of things were wrong with that comment. There was an american left. There was a socialist party. It was even winning elections on a city and state level, and ultimately a couple of congressman. There were real communists. From 1860, there were communists clubs in several major american cities, marxist communist clubs. And the marxist First International working association was at home in the u. S. , and indeed for a decade there was a coalition of european socialists and coming socialists and communists and american reformers, some of whom figured in my b
Leon levy fellow in 2009, 2010. And i have just learned that she spends only 10 years on this book. [laughter] maybe a little bit more. But i am very sympathetic. My first biography on john mccloy took me 10 years, although my wife claims it was really 12 years. A biography takes a long time, it is a massive endeavor. Most biographers get biography disease and they cannot stop researching. [laughter] years roll by. Andresult is often rich deeply detailed account of not only a life, but of a time. To my mind, the best part of history. Vandas article on the Entertainment Industry and social issues have been published in articles and in newspapers, including redbook and the los angeles times. Her project explores the life and times of the forgotten movie mogul, or maybe not so forgotten, whose contributions to the art, technology and business of the film laid the foundation for Popular Culture today. So with that very brief enter judgment brief introduction, i will turn over the event to
Congress. I made a few suggestions, and i have additional suggestions on how he could do that if he was serious about growing the economy. Drilling and leasing activities on federal lands is another. Educational choice. The reality is the president has a choice. I heard a question of whether he mention the minimum wage. Yes, he did, repeatedly. This president and the white house seems to be waving the white house of surrender. Now thea economy is minimum wage economy. We can do better than that. I think america can do better than that. There are things that he can do with executive action. There are other things he can do. We asked him about reining in regulation from the epa, adopt a repealory budgets, outdated relations. There are things we can do instead of waving the white flag of surrender, declaring this economy to be a minimum wage economy. I think we can do better. Until a few moments ago we were going down a pretty cooperative road. [laughter] let me say that we do not all oil