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Chapter Six           Over time, there is a great variance in the extent to which workers are willing to challenge their traditional inferior/dependent position in society and to resist actively economic exploitation.  Some eras are noted for combativeness on the part of labor, while at other times apparent worker timidity and passivity seem to prevail. Continue reading “The Grassroots Labor Parties of 1919-1920: A Missed Opportunity for Labor”

Chapter Seven The Fruits of the Failure to Implement the United Front Strategy             For advocates of a class-based political realignment in the United States, the most disorienting challenge to the Democrats’ and Republicans’ two-party political-monopoly is Robert LaFollette’s 1924 so-called “Progressive Party” campaign.   A common misconception holds that this constituted the high-water mark inContinue reading “LaFollette’s “One Man Show” in the 1924 Presidential Election”