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'''John Spargo''' (1876–1966), an immigrant from Britain, was a prominent Socialist who moved right and by 1917 became a leading conservative in the [[Progressive Era]].
Spargo, a British socialist who spent most of his life in the United States, had moved gradually to the right of the socialist movement, advocating a gradualist and anti-revolutionary interpretation of Marxism. He advocated American intervention in World War, and was an early and avid critic of the Bolshevik Revolution. Spargo who composed the "Colby Note" that formalized President [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s anti-communist doctrine.
A harsh critic of Roosevelt [[New Deal]] and its recognition of the Soviet Union in 1933. He spoke out in support of the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities in the late 1930s as it exposed Communists and Fascists inside the U.S. Spargo likewise supported [[Joe McCarthy]] and [[Richard Nixon]], as well as [[Barry Goldwater]] in the 1964 elections.
Ruotsila (2006) sees Spargo's odyssey as a logical and linear progression in which he successfully preserved the core of his [[Social Gospel]] even as he became a Republican activist.
==Further reading==
* Ruotsila, Markku. ''John Spargo and American Socialism'' (2006)
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Spargo, a British socialist who spent most of his life in the United States, had moved gradually to the right of the socialist movement, advocating a gradualist and anti-revolutionary interpretation of Marxism. He advocated American intervention in World War, and was an early and avid critic of the Bolshevik Revolution. Spargo who composed the "Colby Note" that formalized President [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s anti-communist doctrine.
A harsh critic of Roosevelt [[New Deal]] and its recognition of the Soviet Union in 1933. He spoke out in support of the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities in the late 1930s as it exposed Communists and Fascists inside the U.S. Spargo likewise supported [[Joe McCarthy]] and [[Richard Nixon]], as well as [[Barry Goldwater]] in the 1964 elections.
Ruotsila (2006) sees Spargo's odyssey as a logical and linear progression in which he successfully preserved the core of his [[Social Gospel]] even as he became a Republican activist.
==Further reading==
* Ruotsila, Markku. ''John Spargo and American Socialism'' (2006)
====references====
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[[Category:Former Leftists]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Spargo, John}}