As an example of this kind of thought lurking in the shadows of American history, Hage pointed to the career of Carl Schurz, Interior Secretary under President Rutherford B. Hayes. Hage wrote in Storm Over Rangelands that "Schurz's efforts to prevent the establishment of private property rights on the public lands may have sprung from his socialist background. Schurz was a controversial German immigrant who had fought along with Karl Marx in the Revolution of 1848, came to America, was elected senator from Missouri and supported the radical Republican's reconstruction plans."
Read on:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/08/rancher-rebels-the-rise-of-the-wise-use-movement/
Note: Carl Schurz was a socialist, he was a Republican and yankee General in the Civil War.