Socialist Party of America

Examples of Socialist Party of America in the following topics:

• Democratic Socialism

  • France is an example of a democratic socialist state.
  • Debs made five bids for president: once in 1900 as candidate of the Social Democratic Party and then four more times on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America.
  • Leninism is based on the philosophy of Vladimir Lenin, who advocated organized revolution led by a vanguard party.
  • France is an example of a democratic socialist state.
  • In 2012, French voters elected the Socialist Party candidate, François Hollande, into office with the expectation that he will meet his campaign promises to introduce greater socialist policy.

• Industrial Freedom

  • The Socialist Party of America ran several candidates for president, and many Americans formed communes and other collaborative collectives as experiments in socialist living.
  • Ault participated in the Socialist Labor Party from 1892 to 1898.
  • In 1898, he transferred his allegiance to the new Social Democratic Party of America, headed by labor leader Eugene V.
  • This organization was the forerunner of the Socialist Party of America (SPA), a group which Ault joined at its formation.
  • Ault was embroiled in the bitter 1909 State Convention of the Socialist Party of Washington, leaving with the minority left wing delegation headed by Titus.

• The Progressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912

  • Debs also ran again as the nominee of the Socialist Party of America.
  • By 1912, the Socialist Party of America claimed more than a thousand locally elected officials in over thiry states and 160 cities, especially the Midwest.
  • The conservative socialists, led by Victor L.
  • With few exceptions, the Socialist party had weak or nonexistent links to local labor unions.
  • Many of these issues had been debated at the First National Congress of the Socialist Party in 1910, and they were debated again at the national convention in Indianapolis in 1912.

• The Socialist Presence

  • The Socialist Labor Party was officially founded in 1876 at a convention in Newark, New Jersey.
  • In its nascent years, the Socialist Labor Party encompassed a broad range of various philosophies, with differing concepts of how to achieve their goals.
  • The Socialist Party formed strong alliances with a number of labor organizations that shared similar goals--such as collectivism.
  • Hence the Socialists and Labor parties, with their public talk of draft dodging and war-opposition, found themselves the target of persecution.
  • The expelled members formed the Communist Labor Party and the Communist Party of America and the Socialist party was reduced to one third of its original size.

• Ideological Third Parties and Splinter Parties

  • America's democratic system is predominantly a two party system.
  • Though third parties represent a very small fraction of Americans participating in politics, they do influence elections by drawing votes away from either of the two main parties.
  • An example of a small right-wing third party would be the America First Party.
  • An example of an extreme left wing party is the Peace and Freedom Party.
  • The PFP seeks to enact a more socialist economy.

• Socialism

  • Elsewhere in Asia, some elected socialist parties and communist parties remain prominent, particularly in India and Nepal.
  • The Communist Party of Nepal in particular calls for multi-party democracy, social equality, and economic prosperity.
  • In Ireland, in the 2009 European election, Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party took one of four seats in the capital Dublin European constituency.
  • In Denmark, the Socialist People's Party more than doubled its parliamentary representation to 23 seats from 11, making it the fourth largest party.
  • The LCR abolished itself in 2009 to initiate a broad anti-capitalist party, the New Anticapitalist Party, whose stated aim is to "build a new socialist, democratic perspective for the twenty-first century".

• The Election of 1920

  • Politicians argued over peace treaties and America's entry into the League of Nations, which produced an isolationist reaction.
  • Wilson chose not to run for a third term and both major parties turned to dark horse candidates from Ohio, which was rich in electoral votes, while the third-party Socialists stuck with their chosen candidate of the previous four presidential elections.
  • Socialist Party candidate Eugene V.
  • Christensen of the Farmer-Labor Party received 1% of the vote total, while Prohibition Party candidate Aaron S.
  • This cartoon depicts Socialist Party candidate, Eugene Debs, campaigning for president from prison in 1920.

• German Immigration

  • Between 1820 and World War I, many German political refugees came to America following a series of German revolutions.
  • The largest flow of German immigration to America occurred between 1820 and World War I, during which time nearly six million Germans immigrated to the United States.
  • Following the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany, a wave of political refugees fled to America who became known as "Forty-Eighters."
  • In general during the Third Party System (1850s–1890s), the Protestants and Jews leaned toward the new Republican Party and the Catholics were strongly Democratic.
  • Summarize the political significance of German immigration in mid-nineteenth century America

• Socialism and the Unions

  • The IWW was founded in Chicago in June 1905 at a convention of 200 socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists from all over the United States who were opposed to the policies of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
  • Laurence Gronlund was an American lawyer and socialist.
  • He was closely connected with the work of the Socialist Labor Party from 1874 to 1884, after which he devoted himself almost exclusively to lecturing.
  • This vision proved an appealing panacea to a generation of intellectuals alienated from the dark side of Gilded Age America.
  • With key Nationalist Club activists largely absorbed into the apparatus of the People's Party, Bellamy abandoned politics and returned to literature.

• Progress and Poverty

  • Laurence Gronlund was an American lawyer and socialist.
  • He was closely connected with the work of the Socialist Labor Party from 1874 to 1884, after which he devoted himself almost exclusively to lecturing.
  • This vision proved an appealing panacea to a generation of intellectuals alienated from the dark side of Gilded Age America.
  • For the next three and a half years, Bellamy devoted his time to politics, published his magazine, worked to influence the platform of the People's Party, and publicized the Nationalist movement in the popular press.
  • With key Nationalist Club activists largely absorbed into the apparatus of the People's Party, Bellamy abandoned politics and returned to literature.