- 100 Years Ago, the First Red Scare Tried to Destroy the Left - The first Red Scare that began a century ago with the Palmer Raids wasn’t rooted in irrational hysteria. The government agencies that carried out the raids had an unambiguous goal: to destroy the radical left in the United States. https://jacobinmag.com/2019/12/red-scare-industrial-workers-of-the-world-iww 4 comments politics