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The socialist movement in the United States was part of … a broader politico-economic upheaval originating in the latter part of the nineteenth century. [E. Ader, Socialism, Woodbury: Barron’s, 1966, p. 94]

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    Rodney D. Peterson (Professor of Economics)

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Peterson, R.D. (1991). Socialism. In: Political Economy and American Capitalism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3874-1_8

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