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12. No, as I mentioned those are starting points

Reply to vintx (Reply #10)

Thu Mar 24, 2016, 07:20 AM

Mar 2016

Both of which contain pretty extensive bibliographies, which I have read, and which if you are actually interested in the question you might like to read (both are popular works but reference a lot of scholarship).

I'm (perhaps foolishly) taking you at your word that you've somehow actually never heard of this line of criticism on the left over the past two decades, rather than just actively refusing to let it through your filter.

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About the New Deal (Edited: Found & added something like what I remembered) [View all] vintx Mar 2016 OP

The Populist Party disappeared by 1900. It began as an offshoot of the Graingers. Hoppy Mar 2016 #1

Wasn't one of those the party from which these planks were adopted? vintx Mar 2016 #2

There were several populist planks that became law. Among them, the silver standard to replace gold. Hoppy Mar 2016 #3

Thanks, but I was more curious about what motivated Dems to adopt vintx Mar 2016 #4

--- a couple of theories about that... Hoppy Mar 2016 #6

That sounds similar to what I remember, didn't know irt was 20 years though. vintx Mar 2016 #8

Just wanted to add that I managed to find something like what I remember reading before vintx Mar 2016 #11

I guess, Google the Populist Party planks and Progressive Party. Hoppy Mar 2016 #14

Yep, I'm familiar with the laws. The thing I'm curious about is what motivated the Dems vintx Mar 2016 #15

"After" in the sense of "30 years later", yes Recursion Mar 2016 #5

Which planks did the Dems adopt from the KKK? vintx Mar 2016 #7

The New Deal, for one Recursion Mar 2016 #9

So the only source for your claim is one book. vintx Mar 2016 #10

No, as I mentioned those are starting points Recursion Mar 2016 #12

You can stop now I found the actual history thanks. nt vintx Mar 2016 #13