Norman Mattoon Thomas
(November 20, 1884 - December 19, 1968)
was a leading American socialist, pacifist,
and six-time presidential candidate for the
Socialist Party of America.
The Socialist Party candidate for President
of the US, Norman Thomas, said this in a
1944 speech:
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.
But, under the name of "liberalism, 'they will adopt every fragment of
the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation,
without knowing how it happened.'
He went on to say: "I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate
for the Socialist Party.
The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.
