• Partisans of a Dying Dream: The Populist Moment and American Socialism

  • Jan 27 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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Partisans of a Dying Dream: The Populist Moment and American Socialism

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  • This week we delve into what is sort of a pre-history of the American Socialist movement. Though the populist movement undeniably kept its Jeffersonian character, it was the first (arguably only) significant challenge to the dominance of the two major capitalist parties in the US. Much of the energy and the spirit of American populism flowed into and colored the burgeoning American workers' movement.

    From Populism to Socialism and Back
    https://jacobin.com/2019/08/populism-socialism-daniel-de-leon-eugene-debs

    American Populism, 1876-1896
    https://digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/gildedage/populism

    Populist Party Platform July 4, 1892
    https://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1876-1900/populist-party-platform-july-4-1892.php

    Cantrell, Gregg, and D. Scott Barton. “Texas Populists and the Failure of Biracial Politics.” The Journal of Southern History 55, no. 4 (1989): 659–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/2209044.

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