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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

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).

Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth

Socialist Party of Washington

LeWarne, Charles Pierce. Utopias on Puget Sound 1885-1915. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Quint, Howard. The Forging of American Socialism. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.

. Social Democracy Library. No. 1. Chicago. Social Democracy of America. 1897.

Merrie England

. Social Democracy Library. No. 2. Chicago. The Social Democracy. 1898.

Three in One: A Trinity of Arguments on Socialism

Cyrus Field Willard, Chicago: Social Democracy of America, June 1898.

Security of Employment.

Bernard J. Brommel. "Debs's Cooperative Commonwealth Plan for Workers". Labor History. vol. 1., no. 4 (Fall 1971). pp. 560–569.

. Early American Marxism website.

Socialist Party history