On the socialist origins of the Republican Party
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« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2014, 06:51:31 PM »
I love that the fact that the Republican Senator was a dues-paying member of Karl Marx's International Working Men's Association is so easily dismissed (i.e. not even discussed).
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« Reply #26 on: April 24, 2014, 01:30:46 AM »
There's a pretty popular alternative history book series in which Abraham Lincoln loses the Civil War and ultimately founds a Socialist Party that becomes one of the two major parties in the US.

http://turtledove.wikia.com/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Abraham_Lincoln_in_Southern_Victory
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« Reply #27 on: May 07, 2014, 09:46:40 PM »
It's pretty fair to say that, pre-1870s, the Republicans weren't socialist but if you were a (non-Irish) socialist you were probably a Republican.
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