It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone.

And after congratulating the New York Community Trust on their centennial before the news,

now we continue our WNYC Centennial Series,

100 Years of 100 Things,

taking the opportunity on this show

to take deep historical dives into 100 different people and things

over the course of our centennial year, July to July.

This week, things 34 and 35, 100 years of American capitalism,

and 100 years of American socialism. Socialism first now, with historian Michael Kazin,

professor of history at Georgetown University, editor emeritus of dissent magazine, and the author

of several books, including

what it took to win, a history of the Democratic Party, and American Dreamers, how the left

changed a nation. And many of my questions in the conversation we're about to have will be

drawn from an article on Lit Hub by Michael Kaysen called A Brief History of American Socialism.

Professor Kaysen, thanks for coming on with us again.

Welcome back to WNYC.

And you are there, right?

I'm here.

Yep, just checking.

I didn't hear you the first time.

Well, I learned from your article,

who coined the word socialism back 200 years ago, around 1825. Would you tell our listeners a little

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