Socialism and Print Culture in America, 1897û1920
Socialism and Print Culture in America, 1897û1920
- ISBN 13:
9781848933347
- ISBN 10:
1848933347
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 07/16/2015
- Publisher: Routledge
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Summary
For socialists at the turn of the last century, reading was a radical act. This interdisciplinary study looks at how American socialists used literacy in the struggle against capitalism. The early Presidential campaigns of Eugene V Debs - leader of the Socialist Party - produced a concerted effort to develop a socialist literature specifically for an American readership. There followed a rapid growth in printed material which helped the movement in its rise to prominence, however, Martinek contends that this over-reliance on the printed word was also to be instrumental in its subsequent downfall.