Social Democracy of America

The Social Democracy of America (SDA), later known as the Cooperative Brotherhood, was a short lived political party in the United States that sought to combine the planting of an intentional community with political action in order to create a socialist society. It was an organizational forerunner of both the Socialist Party of America (SPA) and the Burley, Washington cooperative socialist colony.

Social Democracy of America
FoundedJune 15, 1897 (June 15, 1897)
Dissolved1900
Preceded byAmerican Railway Union
Succeeded byCooperative Brotherhood
Social Democratic Party of America
IdeologyDemocratic socialism
Utopian socialism
Political positionLeft-wing

The party split into political and colonization wings at its convention in 1898, with the political actionists establishing themselves as the Social Democratic Party of America (SDP).

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