Socialist Party of America

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The Socialist Party of America was founded in 1901.[1]

The party lost many of its members to the Communist Party USA

The party split in the early 1970s into three factions, the Social Democrats USA, the 'Democratic Socialists of America and the Socialist Party USA.[2]

Members

Walter Lippmann | Norman Thomas | Ben Gitlow | Frank N. Trager

Notes

  1. Tim Davenport, Socialist Party (1897-1946): Party History., Early American Marxism website, updated: Sept. 19, 2011, accessed 19 April 2012.
  2. David McReynolds, NORMAN THOMAS'S FOLLOWERS SUPPORT A FREEZE, New York Times, 23 June 1982.