Shlaes wrote that Roosevelt's policies were often inspired by socialist or fascist models abroad. She acknowledges that Hoover and Roosevelt may not have had better alternatives; their policies may have spared America some facsimile of Mussolini's fascism or Stalin's communism. Shales states that "The argument that ...
Apr 23, 2012 ... Others went so far as to insist that FDR was a communist, including FDR's erstwhile colleague Al Smith, who, as one of the founders of the right-wing American ... For without their purchasing power — or what he called the “fair distribution of buying power” — a strong, vibrant economy was not possible.
Jan 30, 2001 ... The Socialist Party's membership had increased to 25,000 by 1935. As a result of leftist enthusiasm for President Roosevelt, however, its presidential vote declined to 188,000 in 1936, fewer votes than the party had attained in any presidential contest since 1900. The Communist Party, on the other hand, ...
Dec 19, 2010 ... Perhaps the most important lesson of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal is what it reveals to us about the sweep and scope of history — and how easy it is to bury truth under the winds of change. Today, FDR is considered one of the best presidents ever. A survey of presidential scholars performed by the ...
Nov 20, 2015 ... Curiously, Sanders seemed to agree with them, taking his definition of “socialism” from its nineteen-thirties opponents, the people Roosevelt called “economic ... Bernie Sanders's socialism is Eisenhower's and F.D.R.'s world if Reagan had never happened: economic security updated by the continuing ...
FDR was called a socialist and a communist.