Nichols: 1          How Socialists Built America

• It is a claim that America was founded as a capitalist country and that socialsim is a dnagerous foreign import, and that it must be stopped.

Nichols: pg. 1   How Socialists Built America

• Corporation are always good and unions are always bad, adn that the progressive taxation is inherently evil and that the best economic model is the one that allows the wealthy to gobble up as much of the Republic.

Nichols: pg.2   How Socialists Built America

• Obama is actng on free market principles. 
• Claims that Obama has borrowed ideas that are approaching from socialists that would not make Obama anymore of a Socialist than he already is.

Nicholas: pg. 4 How Socialists Built America

• Truman had stirred about in the United States conservative outrage by arguing that the gover meant had the authority to impose anti-lynching laws on the states and by prop a national healthcare plan. 
• Truman reminded the Republicans that his policies were outlined in the 1948 Democratic platform, which proven to be wildly popular with the electorate.

Nicholas: pg. 7-8 How Socialists Built America

• The main element- a social democratic critique frequently combined with an active Socialist Party and more recently linked with independent socialist activism in labor and equal rights campaigns for women. 
• Michael Harrington's proposals for renewal of the New Deal public works projecta were never fully embraced  by the United States.