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On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Juuso Koponen wrote:
> Well, most of those people _were_ Socialists when they left
> Finland. They went to the US because there the freedom of thought and
> other human rights were at another level compared to the post-civil
> war Finland were Communists and Socialists were chased after, harassed
> and even lynch-mobbed (this happened in America only after WW2 at the
> same scale when they began to see the Soviets as their enemies - I
> think that the US wasn't ever so much against Socialism as against
> USSR as the opposite superpower). I think the US Socialist movement
> was actually strongest in around 1930..?
yeah, the US socialists were extremely powerful in the 1920's and 30's.
the rise of the stock market made many americans rich, but also divided
the rich and the poor more. and then after the market crashed, practically
everyone was poor, so socialism was definitely the word. the government
was also borderline socialist after the stock market crash as FDR
instituted many new programs designed to help the people and to give them
work.
the town i grew up in was a working-class town, and it was literally run
by the socialists from 1916-1938. they held every elected office until
1938, when they all were voted out. americans are so fickle.
micah stupak
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