With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the conversation around socialism in the U.S. is more lively than ever before in recent memory. But isn’t the idea of socialism anathema to American values of free enterprise and entrepreneurism? BackStory reveals the rich history of socialism in the USA in this rebroadcast from 2019.
Image: The cover art for the album "Power to the Working Class: Revolutionary songs written & sung by workers & students in struggle." Source: Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/yan.1a38051/)
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