American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory
Gary Dorrien
Abstract
The USA has a rich tradition of democratic socialism despite its long tradition of denigrating democratic socialism as un-American. The former American tradition has sought to Americanize democratic socialism by speaking the language of individual liberty, trying to build a coalition party of the democratic left, and grappling with American racism, cultural diversity, exceptionalist mythology, and activist religion. Democratic socialists founded the nation’s first industrial unions, proposed every plank of what became the New Deal, and played leading roles in the civil rights movement. Today d ... More
Keywords: Democratic socialism, Religious socialism, Social Democracy, American radicalism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300253764 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: January 2022 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300253764.001.0001 |
