By your definitions America has a history of Social Democracy not Socialism.
I, verbatim, said America has an extensive socialist, but not anti-capitalistic history. Do we agree that I said that?
Socialism is anti-capitalistic in general. Do you agree I said that?
There were many protests and sometimes revolts by the worker class was to limit the power of the owner class and give some to the worker class. That is textbook socialism. Do you agree with that?
Majority of these protests didn't call for capitalism to end(some did), but for better work conditions and benefits.
Strengthening worker class power and benefits, while weakening the capitalistic power, which is socialism and anti-capitalistic, all this
under captialism, is a social democracy, which seeks a balance between Socialism and Captialism.
Socialism is anti-capitalistic. Capitalism is anti-socialistic. It's not that I'm contradicting myself, but that the ideologies themselves contradictory and exact opposites.