Before the 1917 Russian Revolution, socialists in the U.S. were winning hundreds of local and national contests.

In Manhattan, a socialist immigrant from Lithuania was sent to Congress in 1915. Milwaukee had three socialist mayors. And in the 1912 presidential election, socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs received 6% of the popular vote.

But socialists couldn’t capitalize on these victories. First, an internal split between the revolutionaries and the moderates prevented a united front. Then the increasingly violent nature of the Bolsheviks scared many off.

HOW AMERICA REACHED A POLITICAL TIPPING POINT FOR SOCIALISM

More than all that…

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