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It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States
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It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks W.W. Norton & Company - 2000 - 379 pages - $26.95
Readers of this magazine will automatically be inclined to look askance at the title of this book. The United States slid into socialism, sometimes at a rapid pace and sometimes slower, during most of the twentieth century. Things don't appear to be changing in the new century. To say that socialism has failed here is to overlook an enormous amount of socialistic law and regulation. But what political scientists Lipset and Marks mean by their title is that there never developed the kind of powerful political party overtly …
