It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States
- ISBN-10
- 0393322548
- ISBN-13
- 9780393322545
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 379
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Authors
- Seymour Martin Lipset, Gary Marks
Description
Explores the failure of the socialist movement in the United States using comparisons between the United States and other industrialized nations to explain why American values, political structure, union divisions, and other key factors prevented the spre
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