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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.
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Eugene V. Debs addresses the founding convention of the Social Democracy of America in Chicago, June 15, 1897
This 1897 ad by the SDA emphasizes that "one of the States of the Union, to be hereafter determined, shall be selected for concentration of our members and the introduction of cooperative industry"
Social Democratic Party of America
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The Social Democratic Party of America (SDP) was a short-lived political party in the United States established in 1898.
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1900 NEC members
Cover motif of the paperback edition of Frederic Heath's Social Democracy Red Book
The Chicago SDP made use of the same clasped-hands-over-a-globe logo that was later appropriated by the Socialist Party of America.