Social Democrats USA - Revision history

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Tom Griffin: /* Publications */

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Tom Griffin: typo

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Tom Griffin: /* Publications */

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Tom Griffin: /* External Resources */

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Tom Griffin: added category Decent left

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added category Decent left

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Tom Griffin: category: Neocons

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category: Neocons

Tom Griffin: 2003 conference

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2003 conference

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 *[https://archive.org/details/ForTheRecord1973 For The Record (1973)], archived at the Internet Archive.
 *[https://archive.org/details/TheAmericanChallengeASocial-democraticProgramForTheSeventies The American challenge : a Social-Democratic program for the seventies (1973)], archived at the Internet Archive.
-*Sidney Hook, [https://archive.org/details/TheSocialDemocraticProspect he Social Democratic prospect (1976)], archived at the Internet Archive]].
+*Sidney Hook, [https://archive.org/details/TheSocialDemocraticProspect The Social Democratic prospect (1976)], archived at the Internet Archive.
 *Rita Freedman, Ed., [https://archive.org/details/DoesAmericaNeedASocialDemocraticMovement Does America need a social democratic movement? (1993)], archived at the Internet Archive.

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−	::The Social Democrats, USA (SD/USA) has its political roots in the Socialist Party. Its philosophical forefather was the intellectual Trotskyite, [[Max Shachtman]]. ~~Shactman~~, initially a Communist, became increasinging disenchanted with the actions of the Soviet Union under Stalin and developed a new genre of antiStalinist leftists. This group joined the Socialist party of [[Eugene Debs]] and [[Norman Thomas]] in the 1960s. It was in this period that the SD/USA made its commitment to, and its first inroads into the organized labor movement. In 1972, the Socialist Party split into two factions; the left led by [[Michael Harrington]] and the right or conservative wing led by [[Tom Kahn]], [[Rachelle Horowitz]], and [[Carl Gershman]]. The latter became the SD/USA.	+	::The Social Democrats, USA (SD/USA) has its political roots in the Socialist Party. Its philosophical forefather was the intellectual Trotskyite, [[Max Shachtman]]. Shachtman, initially a Communist, became increasinging disenchanted with the actions of the Soviet Union under Stalin and developed a new genre of antiStalinist leftists. This group joined the Socialist party of [[Eugene Debs]] and [[Norman Thomas]] in the 1960s. It was in this period that the SD/USA made its commitment to, and its first inroads into the organized labor movement. In 1972, the Socialist Party split into two factions; the left led by [[Michael Harrington]] and the right or conservative wing led by [[Tom Kahn]], [[Rachelle Horowitz]], and [[Carl Gershman]]. The latter became the SD/USA.

	::In the 1970s, under the leadership of [[Carl Gershman]], SD/USA became a supporter of Sen. [[Henry Jackson]] and his contingent of conservative, hawkish "defenders of democracy." As such, they gained a great deal of political experience and savvy, but little political power. It was not until the election of [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1980, that the SD/USA achieved positions of power and influence in both the labor movement and the government.<ref>[http://rightweb.irc-online.org/gw/2810.html Profile: Social Democrats USA], RightWeb, accessed 17 May 208.</ref>		::In the 1970s, under the leadership of [[Carl Gershman]], SD/USA became a supporter of Sen. [[Henry Jackson]] and his contingent of conservative, hawkish "defenders of democracy." As such, they gained a great deal of political experience and savvy, but little political power. It was not until the election of [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1980, that the SD/USA achieved positions of power and influence in both the labor movement and the government.<ref>[http://rightweb.irc-online.org/gw/2810.html Profile: Social Democrats USA], RightWeb, accessed 17 May 208.</ref>

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 *[https://archive.org/details/ForTheRecord1973 For The Record (1973)], archived at the Internet Archive.
 *[https://archive.org/details/TheAmericanChallengeASocial-democraticProgramForTheSeventies The American challenge : a Social-Democratic program for the seventies (1973)], archived at the Internet Archive.
 ==External Resources==

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 *[[Morley Winograd]]
 Members of Advisory Committee are not necessarily members of SD, USA.<ref>[http://www.socialdemocrats.org/natcom.html Social Democrats USA, Officers and National Committee Members], accessed 17 May 2008.</ref>
 ==External Resources==

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 *Rightweb [http://rightweb.irc-online.org/gw/2810.html Social Democrats, USA]
 *[http://www.forward.com/articles/8856/ Debs’s Heirs Reassemble To Seek Renewed Role as Hawks of Left], by Joshua Micah Marshall, Forward, 23 May 2003.
-[http://www.reason.com/blog/show/101687.html Alphabet Soup], Jesse Walker, Reason: Hit and Run, 22 May 2003.
+*[http://www.reason.com/blog/show/101687.html Alphabet Soup], Jesse Walker, Reason: Hit and Run, 22 May 2003.
 ==References==

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	The [[Social Democrats USA]] appear to have become largely defunct since the death of [[Penn Kemble]] in 2005.		The [[Social Democrats USA]] appear to have become largely defunct since the death of [[Penn Kemble]] in 2005.
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		+	==2003 conference==
		+	In May 2003, shortly after the invasion of Iraq, the party held a Washington conference entitled Everything Changed: What Now for Labor, Liberalism and the Global Left?
		+	The event was chiefly noted at the time for a spat between the liberal writer [[Paul Berman]] and the prominent neoconservative [[Joshua Muravchik]].<ref>[http://www.forward.com/articles/8856/ Debs’s Heirs Reassemble To Seek Renewed Role as Hawks of Left], By Joshua Micah Marshall, Forward, 23. May 2003.</ref> Muravchik commented that “I want to welcome Paul Berman on board. It seems that in every big conflict we reap some important new recruits. In the wars of Central America, we reaped the [[Ronald Radosh\|Radoshes]] and the Leikens. There were some more after Bosnia. Now the war against terrorism has brought us [[Christopher Hitchens\|Hitchens]] and Berman -- very nice indeed.”
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		+	[[Robert Leiken]] chaired a panel on ‘Europe, the Left and Anti-Americanism’, which considered the wave of opposition that the Iraq War had aroused across the Atlantic.
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		+	::A central question for our next panel might be summarized this way: what role did the European left play in encouraging the strident attacks on the United States that have been mounted in Europe and elsewhere over the past year or so?
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		+	::A second issue might this: In the years following World War II, when Stalin's army was in Eastern Europe and Stalinist parties seemed on the verge of coming to power in Western Europe, American and European intellectuals and sections of the labor movement rallied to found such institutions as the Congress for Cultural Freedom and Encounter magazine. Is such a grouping conceivable today?<ref>[http://www.socialdemocrats.org/May17InstituteTranscript.html, EVERYTHING CHANGED: What Now for Labor, Liberalism and the Global Left?], Social Democrats USA, accessed 7 June 2008.</ref>

	==Sidney Hook conference==		==Sidney Hook conference==