https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/58f01941-79bb-49f7-98fb-542481d5ee74 Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/secondthought Check out our most recent Deprogram episode on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/thedeprogram/episode-90-the-kind-vladimir-ilych-wouldve-killed-everyone-here-send-newds-10 America's Forgotten Socialist History – Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS From our very earliest education Americans are told that the US has never been and will never be a socialist country. While it's true that the US has never been governed by a socialist party, it's impossible to look at US history and say we've never had strong socialist movements and notable socialist figures. Let's take a look! New video every other Friday! Citations and Further Reading: Socialist Orgs To Consider https://www.cpusa.org https://pslweb.org https://frso.org https://www.dsausa.org Indigenous Socialism in America https://youtu.be/GdzTdve1n7c https://www.google.com/url?q=https://books.google.com/books?id%3DZkEoAwAAQBAJ%26newbks%3D1%26newbks_redir%3D0%26printsec%3Dfrontcover&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1691757210901649&usg=AOvVaw3O70eY6nOuA-AznKgC9Aj6 https://www.google.com/url?q=https://books.google.com/books?id%3DKBueCgAAQBAJ%26newbks%3D1%26newbks_redir%3D0%26printsec%3Dfrontcover&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1691757210902630&usg=AOvVaw3pgQwzR8exSvtqdDLETdFw https://therednation.org/revolutionary-socialism-is-the-primary-political-ideology-of-the-red-nation-2/ https://isreview.org/issue/103/sense-hope-and-possibility-solidarity/ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/franklin-rosemont-karl-marx-and-the-iroquois Utopian socialism in America https://youtu.be/80mtCNd-JEw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_socialist_movement_in_the_United_States Militant labor in American history (and its repression) https://books.google.com/books?id=PefFoPmOq5IC&printsec=frontcover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93CIO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair https://jacobin.com/2023/05/haymarket-affair-martyrs-memorial-history-chicago-may-day https://jacobin.com/2020/06/police-united-states-strikebreaking-class-war Eugene Debs https://jacobin.com/2020/09/eugene-debs-democracy-antiwar-canton Socialist/labor mobilization and progress https://www.library.upenn.edu/news/workers-rights-socialism-afl https://jacobin.com/2019/10/highlander-folk-school-socialist-party-new-deal The red scares https://jacobin.com/2019/12/red-scare-industrial-workers-of-the-world-iww https://jacobin.com/2022/03/mccarthyism-huac-communists-blacklists-old-new-left Hammer and Hoe https://books.google.com/books?id=amC0CAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover MLK quotes https://mlkglobal.org/2017/11/23/martin-luther-king-on-capitalism-in-his-own-words/ https://mronline.org/2019/01/24/today-capitalism-has-out-lived-its-usefulness-martin-luther-king/ More sources https://books.google.com/books?id=PefFoPmOq5IC&printsec=frontcover https://jacobin.com/2021/08/oklahoma-green-corn-rebellion-washington-wwi-tenant-farmer-poverty-socialist-party-renters-union-working-class-union-wcu https://jacobin.com/2016/04/bernie-sanders-young-peoples-socialist-league-new-york https://jacobin.com/2021/07/socialist-party-red-states-debs-ameringer-history-rural-socialism https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/let-them-tremble-author-tony-pecinovsky-discusses-new-book-on-cpusa/ https://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-american-socialism/ Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapman Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:19:36 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/58f01941-79bb-49f7-98fb-542481d5ee74 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.