Seymour Martin Lipset on Socialism in the U.S.

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Political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset is the co-author (with Gary Marks) of “It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States.”  He tells Judith Strasser that Americans never became revolutionaries because from the beginning, working people here were far better off than those in other countries, and that even countries with a strong social democratic tradition have adopted pro-market policies.