DSA Leader Ashik Siddique Blames ‘Propaganda’ for Americans’ Distrust of Socialism

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SIDDIQUE: "So, there has been a lot of propaganda since the Cold War and the red scare in the United States where very powerful people in the United States felt threatened by the politics we represent. So that is why a lot of people never learned about the history of Democratic Socialists in United States and that it was organized workers who pushed for things like a 40-hour workweek or ending child labor, and these are things that are part of the legacy of Democratic Socialism in this country and that is really against nationalism and fascism. So even the label of national socialism that the Nazis used at the time was intentionally meant to trick people, and it worked at the time, unfortunately, in Germany, but that is why we have to emphasize the Democratic part of what we are talking about today."