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Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904–1920

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Why was once Oklahoma, of all places, more hospitable to socialism than every other state in The united states? In this provocative book, Jim Bissett chronicles the upward thrust and fall of the Socialist Party of Oklahoma right through the first two decades of the twentieth century, when socialism in america enjoyed its golden age.

To give an explanation for socialism’s popularity in Oklahoma, Bissett looks back to the state’s strong tradition of agrarian reform. Drawing most of its beef up from working farmers, the Socialist Party of Oklahoma was once rooted in such well-established organizations as the Farmers Alliance and the Indiahoma Farmers’ Union. And to broaden its appeal, the Party borrowed from the ideology either one of the American Revolution and of Christianity. By making Marxism speak in American terms, the creator argues, Party activists counteracted the prevailing notion that socialism was once illegitimate or un-American.


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