{"id":22065,"date":"2015-11-24T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=22065"},"modified":"2015-11-24T15:25:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:25:27","slug":"the-s-word-a-short-history-of-an-american-tradition-socialism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/11\/24\/the-s-word-a-short-history-of-an-american-tradition-socialism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The S Word: A Short History of an American Tradition&#8230;Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have referred to the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004RI1ZUA\/\" target=\"_blank\">The S Word: A Short History of an American Tradition&#8230;Socialism<\/a> before on this blog.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA few months before the 2010 midterms, Newt Gingrich described the socialist infiltration of American government and media as \u201ceven more disturbing than the threats from foreign terrorists.\u201d John Nichols offers an unapologetic retort to the return of red-baiting in American political life\u2014arguing that socialism has a long, proud, American history. Tom Paine was enamored of early socialists, Horace Greeley employed Karl Marx as a correspondent, and Helen Keller was an avowed socialist. The \u201cS\u201d Word gives Americans back a crucial aspect of their past and makes a forthright case for socialist ideas today.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think enough people are taking up my challenge to read this book to see what startling evidence there is for this viewpoint of our history.  I am afraid that the only way I can convey to you what is in the book is to show an occasional image of a page from the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Page-001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Page-001.jpg\" alt=\"Page from The S Word: A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism\" width=\"100%\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Page-001.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Page-001-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Page-001-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Page-001-675x1024.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1365px) 100vw, 1365px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have referred to the book The S Word: A Short History of an American Tradition&#8230;Socialism before on this blog. A few months before the 2010 midterms, Newt Gingrich described the socialist infiltration of American government and media as \u201ceven more disturbing than the threats from foreign terrorists.\u201d John Nichols offers an unapologetic retort to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22067,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22065\/revisions\/22067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}