Friday, July 31, 2015

Karl Marx and Jay Lovestone Would Be Proud

++Conservative pressure on the Advanced History curriculum has caused the historians to include sections on American Exceptionalism. Karl Marx raised the question when he asked why America was exceptional in not having a socialist tradition. Jay Lovestone reiterated this position to Joe Stalin in trying to explain the difficulty of spreading Communism among the American masses.

++Martin Seymor Lipset examined this issue in a book of his that become a text for neoconservatives. The Republican party included it in their 2012 platform, the first American political party to openly endorse the idea. 

++President Obama is the first American president to actually say the term and speak about it as a real notion. He turned it on its head when he spoke at Selma earlier this year. 

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