Socialist Party

…the left wing of the Socialist Party of America (SPA): the Communist Party of America (CPA), composed of the SPA’s foreign-language federations and led by the sizeable and influential Russian Federation, and the Communist Labor Party of America (CLP), the predominantly English-language group. They were established legally but were soon…

Thus the Socialist Party of America (1901–72) saw many of its proposals adopted by the two major political parties and the government without winning a major election or overthrowing the government. Sometimes the social movement itself is institutionalized by being accorded authority as the legitimate custodian of…

Socialist Party, the first Socialist elected to Congress.

…she returned to Debs’s renamed Socialist Party of America.

…and formed what became the Socialist Party of America. The membership and prestige of the SLP declined thereafter.

…led the establishment of the Socialist Party of America. Debs was the party’s presidential candidate in 1900 but received only 96,000 votes, a total he raised to 400,000 in 1904. In 1905 he helped found the Industrial Workers of the World, but he soon withdrew from the group because of…

…was also chairman of the Socialist Party of America from 1968 to 1972. Harrington was known as the “man who discovered poverty,” and much of his work was an ethical critique of the capitalist system.

…the chief theoretician of the Socialist Party during the first third of the 20th century.

…in 1918 Thomas joined the Socialist Party, and, leaving his East Harlem posts the same year, was appointed secretary of the newly formed Fellowship of Reconciliation, an international pacifist organization. In 1921 he became associate editor of the influential liberal weekly The Nation, and the following year he was made…