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There's a paraphrased quote by John Steinbeck that I've frequently seen that comes to mind
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
Socialism never took root in America because people who tried to organize got shot.
Apart from some worker cooperatives socialism never took root anywhere.
Hum I would disagree.
First of all worker coops are pretty much everywhere. I could go to college for free and have healthcare because socialists who organized large scale strikes (they sometime then proceed to get shot by operation gladio). And then, quite a lot of country still pretend to be socialists. Oftentime with very real mutualities who actually helps people.