Social-Democratic Workingmen's Party of North America
Social-Democratic Workingmen's Party | |
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| Founded | 1874 |
| Dissolved | July 15, 1876 |
| Preceded by | Elections |
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The Social-Democratic Workingmen's Party of North America
History
In 1868,
In the 1874 elections, the SDWP performed horribly.
In 1876, the SDWP merged with three other socialist organizations to create the Workingmen's Party of the United States (WPUS), which would become the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP).[6]
Although the SDWP's platform contained no explicit reference to
If dated from the formation of the ADAV, the SDWP was the second socialist party created in the world, after the General German Workers' Association of Ferdinand Lassalle.[1]
Endnotes
- ^ Sometimes spelled as "Social Democratic Workingmen's Party".
References
- ^ a b Ghent, W. J. (1916). Socialism: A Historical Sketch. New Appeal. p. 30.
During this twelve-year period Socialism overflowed from Germany into the other countries of Europe. In the United States it had already made a beginning. Indeed, the organized movement here, which has a continuous existence from the Social Democratic Workingmen's party of 1874, is, with the exception of the two German parties which united at Gotha, the oldest in the world. If, as suggested by Hillquist, it be dated from the formation of the General German Labor Association in New York (1868), it outdates the Bebel-Liebknecht wing of the German party (1869), leaving only the Lassalle wing 1863) with an earlier origin.
- ^ JSTOR 2491585.
- ^ Davenport, Tim (2019). "Socialist Labor Party". Marxists Internet Archive.
- ISBN 9780252020087.
- ^ a b Foner, Philip (1910). The Workingmen's Party of the United States: A History of the First Marxist Party in the Americas. MEP Publications. p. 25.
- ^ "Notes on the Early History of American Communism". 1 February 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- JSTOR 2707542.
Students of political history will recall that in 1876 an organization known as the Social-Democratic Workingmen's Party of North America was formed. It is of interest from the point of view of this inquiry only because of its name. Aside from the title of the party, the party constitution and platform contained no references to "democracy".
- S2CID 258834298.
A decade and a half before the People's Party famously commended the idea of direct legislation at its 1892 nominating convention in Omaha, Nebraska, the Socialist Labor Party (SLP) made the demand for direct legislation a plank in its first party platform. That demand was shaped by the 1875 Gotha Program formulated by the Socialist Workers Party of Germany and informed by socialist debates during the First International and the pioneering work of Moritz Rittinghausen.