Was Huey Long a communist? As a Louisianain I was always fascinated by him. Even thou he denounced communism I still find his ideas to be very far left, mainly his idea's on wealth redistribution and wealth limitation. With that said what ideology would this guy be?
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Levi Davis
brocialist
Jace Gonzalez
huey long did nothing wrong
Adrian White
He was an extremely radical social democrat at best. He never supported workers self management or even economic planning.
Joseph Robinson
Not a marxist/anarchist for sure. He was more of a radical authoritarian socdem. If he'd gotten his way he'd probably have created a technocratic state capitalism so pretty much the ussr but without calling itself socialist.
Jeremiah Miller
He was a nationalist social democrat. Basically, alt right.
Look at his VP
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Michael King
Honestly, the best way to describe him would probably be populist, though not in a bad way. I don't think he actually subscribed to any particular ideology.
Kevin Kelly
A Left Populist, which usually amounts to being on the left wing of capital as leftcoms like to say.
Tyler Stewart
I read his biography, and he came of mostly as someone with an extreme personality disorder of some kind, really strange fellow. A lot of his moves seemed mostly geared towards amassing power and fucking over people he hated - which mercifully included a host of class enemies.
Logan Wilson
He was pretty typical of the more left progressives in that era, was able to make FDR look weak in contrast.
He fucked up, though, when he actually got to power. He raided the state coffers for his own leisure and installed his family members in state government.
Except he was sympathetic with blacks and was one of the better Southern politicians on race relations of the era
If anyone is interested in listening to a funny bio of Long, here's a pod covering him:
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