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Do I get to be a socialist?

• 20| Would you rather live in the America imagined by the 1912 Socialist Party than the America of 1912?

we agree on some things, but i would totally prefer to live in 1912 america under socialists than what it actually was.

the 1912 socialist party platform was:

• eight hour workday

• abolition of child labor

• direct election of senators

• women’s suffrage

• unemployment insurance

• old age pensions

these are like the bare minimum and wouldn’t even partially arrive for decades later in reality.

the actual America of 1912 was more like jim crow, 16 hour workdays, children in mines, no labor protections whatsoever.