Your Party ID Through the Years (user search)

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	Re: Your Party ID Through the Years « on: July 16, 2014, 09:08:11 AM »
	« edited: July 16, 2014, 05:05:36 PM by Senator TNF »

1789-1791: Anti-Administration
1791-1828: Democratic-Republican
1828-1831: Working Men's Party
1831-1839: Democratic Party
1839-1848: Liberty Party
1848-1854: Free Soil Party
1854-1874: Republican Party
1874-1889: Greenback Party
1889-1891: Union Labor Party
1891-1901: People's Party
1901-1972: Socialist Party
1972-1973: Social Democrats, USA
1973-1982: Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee
1982-1991: Democratic Socialists of America
1991-present: Democratic Socialists of America / Green Party of the United States

I would probably feel very out of place within the Socialist Party after 1919 (at least until the 1930s) but by 1918 the Soviet Union had already begun a process of degeneration that would ultimately rob it of the radical democratic notions it was founded upon by 1921, and so I think I would have a very hard time supporting the Communists after 1918. I would have definitely been one of the more left-leaning members of the Socialist Party, though. I certainly would have supported the faction around Haim Kantorovich in the early 30s.

I feel as if I would become increasingly despondent with the direction of the SP during the 1940s and 1950s, though, but really, where else am I going to go? The Communist Party has been suppressed by the government and there aren't really any real left-wing alternatives until the 1960s, and literally none of those are worth supporting because they're bizarre Maoist cults. I had a hard time figuring out whether or not I would have joining the SPUSA or DSOC after the collapse of the SP, but ultimately went with DSOC because I'm currently a member of DSA. I don't agree with everything in the DSA program (I'm far, far to their left) but hey, it's better than joining up with the CPUSA, which endorsed Obama in 2012.

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Re: Your Party ID Through the Years

« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2014, 02:42:30 PM »

Quote from: Emperor Scott on July 16, 2014, 10:09:23 AM

Surely you are familiar with Workers World, TNF?

Yes, but it's not really what I would consider a serious socialist outfit.

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Re: Your Party ID Through the Years

« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2014, 09:34:47 PM »

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