Progressive muckraking saw conspiracy in monopolies and party bosses

Evidence

Progressives connected the dots to reveal patterns of corruption. They called it muckraking. They revealed a conspiratorial combination of corporate monopolies and party bosses. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 215

Categorization

• DEFINE: Flags muckraking’s conspiracist genealogy—the loaded overlap between corruption investigation and conspiracy theory.
• XREF: connects to: Progressive-era muckraking was conspiracism fused with a theory of democracy — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 72; Progressives blamed corporations and bosses rather than structural economic forces — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 251

Broader Connections

• Progressives blamed corporations and bosses rather than structural economic forces #expands (0.85) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 251