Socialist Party of America

The Socialist Party of America was a socialist political party in the United States. It was formed in 1901 by a merger between the Social Democratic Party of Eugene V. Debs, formed three years earlier by veterans of the Pullman Strike of the American Railway Union, and a wing of the older Socialist Labor Party of America.

World War II and McCarthyism

The party's pacifist anti-war stance further weakened it during World War II, and it was further hurt by the anti-Communist drives of the McCarthy era, although the party itself strongly opposed Stalin's Soviet Union. Almost all of the few remaining electoral toeholds of the Socialist party were lost in this period, the last of any substance being the mayoralty of Milwaukee. In the succeeding decades, the party was rent by internal dissent.

Related Topics:
Pacifist - World War II - Anti-Communist - McCarthy

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