Wednesday, June 27, 2018

What Socialists were trumpeting in 1906: think "Bernie Sanders" and "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez"

Ida Crouch-Hazlett, 1904
     Here's my latest post on the Family Jenni Blog. It concerns the existence of a Socialist Party and a Socialist newspaper, in Central Montana, in the early decades of the 20th Century: "Conflict within the ranks": the emergence and disappearance of Socialism in early Twentieth-Century Montana

     Anyone who skims or peruses old Central Montanan newspapers from around the turn of the (19th) century cannot avoid noticing that the denizens of that region were (they still are!) mighty conservative—as in "classical liberal" or "libertarian." True, the conservative and dominant Fergus County Argus had competition, for a time, from the Fergus County Democrat, but these Democrats were not socialists.
     But, as its turns out, socialism did emerge—and soon fade—in Montana during the first two or three decades of the Twentieth Century, and it turns out that Lewistown, of all places, was the locus of the state's first socialist newspaper!.... READ MORE



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Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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