Social Democracy of America
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The Social Democracy of America, 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
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"
SDA membership card issued September 17, 1897
Cyrus Field Willard
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Cyrus Field Willard was an American journalist, political activist, and theosophist. Deeply influenced by the writing of Edward Bellamy, Willard is best remembered as a principal in several utopian so
Willard was deeply influenced by Edward Bellamy's 1888 utopian novel Looking Backward, and spent more than a decade after its publication working as a socialist activist.
