Were FDR and the New Deal Socialist? (with Harvey J. Kaye)

 

We talk to historian Harvey J. Kaye about the legacy of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. Were both its proponents and its detractors right to see it as a form of American socialism? Harvey J. Kaye is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the author of The Fight for the Four Freedoms, FDR on Democracy, and Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, among other books. Press like and subscribe! Subscribe to Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod...