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1936 › Norman Thomas (Socialist) › Communism, radicalism and "alien isms" as a political issue
Keep the Socialist vote independent; chide the La Follettes for handing Roosevelt 'everything on a silver platter'
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Solution
Refuse the Popular Front logic of backing Roosevelt; hold Wisconsin's Socialist vote in the national column.
Rationale
Progressives 'didn't even force the withdrawal of State Democratic candidates.'
Statements (1)
"They have handed Mr, Roose velt everything on a silver platter and didn't even force the withdrawal of State Democratic candidates, as the Farmer-Laborites did in Minnesota," Thomas told a Milwaukee audience.
Follow-through
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Wisconsin Socialists stayed in the Farmer-Labor-Progressive federation; the national Socialist vote collapsed.
Reception (1)
Socialist sympathizers 'probably joined the Roosevelt movement in large numbers rather than waste their votes.'
Persons in sympathy with the Socialist point of view, for Instance, probably joined the Roosevelt move ment in large numbers rather than waste their votes.
Other positions on this issue
- Popular Front: nominal opposition to Roosevelt, real opposition to Landon and 'fascism' — Earl Browder, 1936 vague_gesture
- Repudiate Communist support; the New Deal is the answer to Communism, not its ally — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 specific_pledge
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