Socialist Labor Party

Examples of Socialist Labor Party in the following topics:

• 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.

• 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's career demonstrates how widespread various socialist and labor party factions were in the United States during the early 20th century.

• The Knights of Labor and the "Conditions Essential to Liberty"

  • The Knights of Labor transitioned from a fraternal organization to a labor union that promoted the uplift of the workingman.
  • The Knights of Labor was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s.
  • They also called for legislation to end child and convict labor .
  • At the same time, the organization gave political support to the People's Party .
  • Two years later, members of the Socialist Labor Party left the Knights to found the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance as a Marxist rival.

• Socialism and the Unions

  • For instance, the Industrial Workers of the World was a labor union that was founded by many notable socialists including Eugene Debs, "Mother" Mary Harris Jones, and Daniel De Leon.
  • Labor unions were concerned with equal rights for workers, while socialists wanted to ensure more equality for all groups in society.
  • 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.

• The National Party Organization

  • The modern political party system in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • At various times, the Socialist Party, the Farmer-Labor Party and the Populist Party had considerable local strength, and then faded away.
  • Some exceptions exist, like Minnesota's Farmer–Labor Party merging into the state's Democratic Party.
  • At present, the Libertarian Party is the most successful third party.
  • Statehood Party has served as a strong third party behind the Democratic Party and Republican Party.

• 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.

• Socialism

  • France is an example of a socialist democracy.
  • In 2012, François Hollande democratically won the presidency on a Socialist Party ticket.
  • Accounting would be based on physical quantities or a direct measure of labor-time instead of on profits and expenses.
  • Socialists critique capitalism, arguing that it derives wealth from a system of labor exploitation and then concentrates wealth and power within a small segment of society that controls the means of production.
  • François Hollande won the French presidency on the Socialist Party ticket in 2012.

• Socialism

  • In western Europe, particularly in the period after World War II, many socialist parties in government implemented what became known as mixed economies.
  • Elsewhere in Asia, some elected socialist parties and communist parties remain prominent, particularly in India and Nepal.
  • 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".

• Democratic Socialism

  • France is an example of a democratic socialist state.
  • Specifically, it is a term used to distinguish between socialists who favor a grassroots-level, spontaneous revolution (referred to as gradualism) from those socialists who favor Leninism (organized revolution instigated and directed by an overarching vanguard party that operates on the basis of democratic centralism).
  • 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.
  • 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.

• The Disadvantages of Mixed Economies

  • While most modern forms of government are consistent with some form of mixed economy, given the broad range of economic systems that can be described by the term, the mixed economy is most commonly associated with social democratic parties or nations run by social democratic governments.
  • Democratic Party .
  • Others contrast social democracy with democratic socialism by defining the former as an attempt to strengthen the welfare state and the latter as an alternative socialist economic system to capitalism.
  • For example, attempts to reduce unemployment too much would result in inflation, and too much job security would erode labor discipline.
  • The Democratic party in the United States is seen by some critics of contemporary social democracy (and mixed economies) as a watered-down, pro-capitalist movement.