Tag Archives: American Socialism

Breitbart has an eyebrow-raising article here on early American socialists and their attitudes to race.There are two points here.First of all, it is true enough that many early socialists, Liberals and even some Marxists did believe in the biological reality of race and racial differences. We know that Karl Marx at the end of his life seems to have believed in the reality of races, and even in a kind of racial phrenology and the racial pseudo-science of Pierre Trémaux (1818–1895) on racial...

It’s surprising how many people have forgotten what the radical American left used to believe about this issue.At a famous Socialist Congress that occurred in Chicago in 1910, American socialists adopted the following resolution: “The Socialist party of the United States favors all legislative measures tending to prevent the immigration of strike breakers and contract laborers, and the mass importation of workers from foreign countries, brought about by the employing classes for the purpose...