Word: communism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preach overthrow of the government by violence. The American plan of government is based on the right of any citizen to favor any changes in our form of government he may desire, so long as constitutional methods are followed. Every American has a perfect right to agitate for Socialism, Communism, or anything else he pleases, if he proposes to reach his goal through lawfully prescribed legislative action. But when a few thousand radical extremists, most of them non-citizens, plot to overthrow the government and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat through murder and direct action, they will find against...