{"id":81540,"date":"2015-12-06T20:48:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T04:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81540"},"modified":"2015-12-06T20:48:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T04:48:55","slug":"communists-developed-the-idea-of-american-exceptionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81540","title":{"rendered":"Communists Developed The Idea Of American Exceptionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_exceptionalism\">From Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>American exceptionalism is the theory that the United States is inherently different from other nations.[2] In this view, American exceptionalism stems from its emergence from the American Revolution, thereby becoming what political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset called &#8220;the first new nation&#8221;[3] and developing a uniquely American ideology, &#8220;Americanism&#8221;, based on liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, republicanism, democracy and laissez-faire. This ideology itself is often referred to as &#8220;American exceptionalism.&#8221;[4]<\/p>\n<p>Although the term does not necessarily imply superiority, many neoconservative and other American conservative writers have promoted its use in that sense.[4][5] To them, the U.S. is like the biblical &#8220;City upon a Hill&#8221;\u2014a phrase evoked by British colonists to North America as early as 1630\u2014and exempt from historical forces that have affected other countries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The exact term &#8220;American exceptionalism&#8221; was occasionally used in the 19th century.[8] Its common use dates from Communist usage the late 1920s. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin chastised members of the Jay Lovestone-led faction of the American Communist Party for its claim that America was independent of the Marxist laws of history &#8220;thanks to its natural resources, industrial capacity, and absence of rigid class distinctions&#8221;. Stalin may have been told of the usage &#8220;American exceptionalism&#8221; by Brouder &#038; Zack in Daily Worker (N.Y.) on the 29th of January 1929, before Lovestone&#8217;s visit to Moscow. American Communists started using the English term &#8220;American exceptionalism&#8221; in factional fights. It then moved into general use among intellectuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia: American exceptionalism is the theory that the United States is inherently different from other nations.[2] In this view, American exceptionalism stems from its emergence from the American Revolution, thereby becoming what political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset called &#8220;the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,26121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-communism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81541,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81540\/revisions\/81541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}