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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 November 2010
The July 2003 special issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era revisited the history of the Socialist Party of America during the Progressive Era. This second issue on “New Perspectives on Socialism” examines socialism largely outside the party context, thereby challenging the tendency of scholars and non-scholars alike to identify socialism with a party-based political movement. To the degree that the essays collected here examine party-based socialism, they focus on the gradualist or revisionist wing of the party, whose socializing and democratic reforms, programs, and ideas helped establish a context for the Progressive Era and thereafter, when a “social democratic” type of politics became intrinsic to the mainstream American politics.
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5 On the recent revival of pragmatism among American scholars see the essays in Pettegrew, John, A Pragmatist's Progress? Richard Rorty and American Intellectual History (New York, 2001)Google Scholar; Lentricchia, Frank, “The Return of William James,” in Ariel and the Police: Michel Foucault, William James, Wallace Stevens (Madison, WI, 1987): 101–33Google Scholar; and Bernstein, Richard J., “Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Healing of Wounds,” in Pragmatism: A Reader, ed., Menand, Louis (New York, 1997): 382–401.Google Scholar
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