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  1. William Z. Foster: 'Lenin Cleared the Road for Socialism in America!'

    Comrade Lenin of Russia
    Rises in the marble tomb
    On guard with the fighters forever -
    The world is our room!

    - Langston Hughes, Ballad of Lenin

    Lenin put American Communism on a hard scientific footing. Daniel Mason reports that "The interplay between Lenin and the United States was very extensive. Lenin had learned the English language early in his career and became an avid student of US economics, politics, education and social life." ...
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  2. Jessica Mitford, the Communist Party & HUAC

    also some of her muckraking work & family history.

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  3. Upton Sinclair--California's 1934 EPIC Campaign for Governor





    Upton Sinclair's EPIC Campaign

    Of all the left-wing mass movements that year, Upton Sinclair's End Poverty in California (EPIC) crusade proved most influential, and not just in helping to push the New Deal to the left.
    Back in the autumn of 1934, political analysts, financial columnists and White House aides for once agreed: Sinclair's victory in the primary marked the
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  4. End of Empire



    Construction slump creates a Sheetrock ghost town

    Empire, Nev., is last intact example of an American icon: the company town.

    EMPIRE, Nev. — This mining town of 300 people clings like a burr to the back of the Black Rock Desert.
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  5. "Paris Commune 1871"--Steve Cook

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