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James
Joll On Anarchism In America: 1920s
James Joll, The Anarchists (London:
Methuen; 1979), pp. 204, 205.
‘The growing prosperity of the U.S.A., the end of [mass]
immigration and the absorption of the foreign elements, as well as the slow
mitigation of the rigours of uncontrolled capitalist expansion, all removed the
basis of anarcho-syndicalism.
In the 1920s and 1930s anarchism was kept alive as a creed in the
U.S.A. among the Italian or Spanish immigrants. . . .
By the mid-twentieth century anarchism in the U.S.A. had reverted
to being a dream which intellectuals discuss or a symbol of revolt against the
affluent society that still attracts idealistic students, but which has long
ceased to be an effective social force.’
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