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Socialist Party USA

The Socialist Party USA, officially the Socialist Party of the United States of America,[5] is a socialist political party in the United States. The party was founded in 1973 as a successor to the Socialist Party of America, which had split a year prior, resulting in another group called Social Democrats, USA.

Socialist Party of the United States of America
Chairs
  • Pat Noble
  • Stephanie Cholensky
[1]
Vice Chairs
  • Claudia Miller
  • Nicholas Partyka
[1]
SecretaryGreg Pason
TreasurerPat Noble
Editor
  • Nicholas Partyka
FoundedMay 30, 1973; 49 years ago (1973-05-30)
Split fromSocial Democrats, USA
Preceded bySocialist Party of America
Headquarters168 Canal Street, 6th Floor New York City, New York 10013
IdeologySocialism
Anti-capitalism
Eco-socialism
Multi-tendency
Socialist feminism
Political positionLeft-wing
Colors  Red
Seats in the Senate
0 / 100
Seats in the House
0 / 435
Governorships
0 / 50
State Upper House Seats
0 / 1,972
State Lower House Seats
0 / 5,411
Local Offices4 (2022)[2][3][4]
Website
www.socialistpartyusa.net

The party is officially committed to multi-tendency socialism. Along with its predecessor, Socialist Party USA has received varying degrees of support when its candidates have competed against those from the Republican and Democratic parties. It advocates for complete independence from the Democratic Party. Self-described as opposing all forms of oppression, specifically "capitalist and authoritarian statist systems," the party advocates the creation of "a radical democracy that places people's lives under their own control—a classless, feminist, socialist society free of racism, sexism, homophobia or transphobia," in which "the people own and control the means of production and distribution through democratically controlled public agencies, cooperatives, or other collective groups"; "full employment is realized for everyone who wants to work"; "workers have the right to form unions freely, and to strike and engage in other forms of job actions"; and "production of society is used for the benefit of all humanity, not for the private profit of a few."[6]

Headquartered at the A. J. Muste Institute, the party's national office is located at 168 Canal Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York City. The party has chartered state organizations in Michigan and New Jersey, as well as several locals throughout the country.[7]

In October 2019, the Socialist Party nominated Howie Hawkins for President of the United States in the 2020 election. Hawkins also received the Green Party 2020 presidential nomination, and ran for that of various state-level parties, such as the Liberty Union Party in Vermont, in a bid to unite the "non-sectarian independent Left" behind a single campaign.[8]

History

Background

In 1958, the Independent Socialist League led by Max Shachtman dissolved to join the Socialist Party of America, which was founded by Eugene V. Debs.[9] Shachtman[10] had written that Soviet communism was a new form of class society, bureaucratic collectivism, in which the ruling class exploited and oppressed the population and therefore he opposed the spread of communism.[11][12] Shachtman also argued that democratic socialists should work with activists from labor unions and civil rights organizations to help build a social democratic "realignment" of the Democratic Party. Though he died on November 4, 1972, and had little involvement with the Socialist Party in the year proceeding his death, his followers, identified as "Shachmanites", exercised a tremendous amount of influence on the party.[11]

In its 1972 convention, the Socialist Party changed its name to Social Democrats, USA by a vote of 73 to 34.[13] The change of name was supported by the two Co-Chairmen, Bayard Rustin and Charles S. Zimmerman of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU);[14] and by the First National Vice Chairman James S. Glaser—these three were re-elected by acclamation.[13]

Renaming the party as SDUSA was meant to be "realistic". The New York Times observed that the Socialist Party had last sponsored Darlington Hoopes as its candidate for President in the 1956 election, who received only 2,121 votes, which were cast in only six states. Because the party no longer sponsored candidates in presidential elections, the name "party" had been "misleading"—"party" had hindered the recruiting of activists who participated in the Democratic Party, according to the majority report. The name "Socialist" was replaced by "Social Democrats" because many American associated the word "socialism" with Soviet communism.[13] The party also wished to distinguish itself from two small Marxist parties.[15]

The convention elected a national committee of 33 members, with 22 seats for the majority caucus, 8 seats for Harrington's coalition caucus, 2 for the Debs caucus, and one for the "independent" Samuel  H. Friedman,[16] who also had opposed the name change.[13] The convention voted on and adopted proposals for its program by a two-one vote, with the majority caucus winning every vote.[16] On foreign policy, the program called for "firmness toward Communist aggression". However, during the Vietnam War, the program opposed "any efforts to bomb Hanoi into submission" and to work for a peace agreement that would protect Communist political cadres in South Vietnam from further military or police reprisals. Harrington's proposal for an immediate cease fire and an immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces was defeated.[16] Harrington complained that after its previous convention, the Socialist Party had endorsed George McGovern with a statement of "constructive criticism" and had not mobilized enough support for McGovern.[15]

After their defeat at the convention, members of two minority caucuses helped to found new socialist organizations. At most 200 members of the Coalition Caucus joined Michael Harrington in forming the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC),[17] which later became the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).[18][19] At its start, DSOC had 840 members, of which 2 percent served on its national board in 1973 when SDUSA stated its membership at 1,800, according to a 1973 profile of Harrington.[17] Second, many members of the Debs Caucus joined David McReynolds in reconstituting the Socialist Party USA also in 1973.[20]

Founding

The Debs Caucus formed the Union for Democratic Socialism and on May 30, 1973, incorporated the Socialist Party of the United States of America,[20] usually simplified as the Socialist Party USA.[21][third-party source needed] Many activists from the local and state branches of the old Socialist Party, including the party's Wisconsin, California, Illinois, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. organizations, participated in the reconstitution of the Socialist Party USA.[19][third-party source needed]

After its founding, the party promoted itself as the legitimate heir of the Socialist Party of America.[22] Former Mayor of Milwaukee, Frank Zeidler, was elected the first national chairperson of the party. Zeidler also helped re-organizing the party structure during its early years. He was later nominated as the party's candidacy for the presidential office, with Zeidler believing the party would be able to collaborate with other socialist parties nationwide to spread the message of socialism.[23]

Subsequent history

Since 1976, a member of the party was elected to the city council of Iowa City and several members have won tens of thousands of votes in elections for statewide offices. In 1982, William Shakalis, running for State Senate from Cambridge, Mass. on the Socialist Party line, received 12.3% of the vote against an incumbent Democratic State Senator.[24] In 1992, Socialist Iowa City Councilwoman Karen Kubby won her re-election with the highest vote in a contested election in the history of the Iowa City Council and was re-elected until retiring from the Council in 2000.[25] In 2000, Socialist Wendell Harris received 19% of the vote for Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the primary.[26] In 2008, Socialist Jon Osborne pulled in 22% of the vote for Rhode Island's 34th District State Senate seat while listed on the ballot under the Socialist Party USA label.[27] During the 2010 United States Senate elections, Dan La Botz of the Socialist Party of Ohio received 25,368 (0.68%) votes in Ohio.[28]

In 2011, Socialist Matt Erard was elected to a three-year term on the city of Detroit's Downtown District Citizens' District Council.[29] In 2012, Socialist Pat Noble unseated his incumbent opponent in winning election to the Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education,[30] Socialist John Strinka received 9.8% of the vote while running with the party's ballot label for Indiana's 39th district State House seat[31] and Socialist Troy Thompson received 27% of the vote for Mayor of Floodwood, Minnesota.[32] Also in 2012, candidate Mary Alice Herbert received 13.1% of the vote for Vermont Secretary of State while running with the dual nomination of both the Socialist and Vermont Liberty Union parties.[33][34]

In 2016 the party endorsed Jarrod Williams for U.S. Senate in Nevada (6,888 votes, 0.6%), Seth Baker for the Maine State Senate (3,712 votes, 16.7%) and Michael Anderson for the Michigan State House of Representatives (1,584 votes, 4.8%). Both Baker and Anderson ran as Green Party candidates.[35][36][37][38]

In 2018 the Socialist Party of Michigan endorsed Matt Kuehnel for the Michigan State House of Representatives, a libertarian socialist who ran as a Libertarian Party candidate (999 votes, 3.3%).[39] The party also endorsed Maia Dendinger for Maine State Senate (1,109 votes, 7.1%),[40] David Elliot Pritt for the West Virginia House of Delegates (2,358 votes, 6%) and Andrew Saturn as Public Utility Commissioner in Thurston county, Washington (41,664 votes, 41.7%).[41][42] Dendinger ran under the Socialist Party label, whereas Pritt ran as a Mountain Party candidate. Pat Noble was re-elected as member of the Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education without opposition.

In 2020, Socialist Jonny Meade received 5.14% of the vote for Washington's 22nd District State House seat.[43] Adriana Cerrillo won her race for the Minneapolis Board of Education 4th district, first advancing from the primary with 38.1% of the vote and winning the general in a narrow race with 49.9%[44][45][46]

The party won its third elected official when Samantha Pree-Stinson won a seat on the Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation. Pat Noble was re-elected as member of the Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education without opposition.

Membership

According to the party's first chairman, Frank Zeidler, the party had around 500 members nationwide in 1975.[23] The Socialist Party experienced substantial growth during the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s, expanding from only around 600 dues-paying members to around 1,700.[47] In 2008, WMNF claimed that the party had around 3,000 paying members.[48] However, a CommonDreams article suggested that the organization had only 1,000 members in 2010, with party members claiming it to be an increase in the number of members.[49] In May 2011, an article from The New York Times stated that the party has "about 1,000 members nationally".[50] In February 2012, an article from The Root stated that the party had a "membership around 1,500".[51][52]

 
Pat Noble, National Co-Chair of the Socialist Party

Current elected members

Ideology

Political positions

While some party members favor a more gradual approach to socialism, most others envision a more sweeping or revolutionary transformation of society from capitalist to socialist through the decisive victory of the working class in the class struggle.[55] Some party members also advocate revolutionary nonviolence or pacifism while some consider armed struggle a possible necessity. The party's Statement of Principles rejects equating socialism with a "welfare state" and calls for democratic social revolution from below.[55] The party is strongly committed to principles of socialist feminism and strives to further embody such commitment in its organizational structure. Its national constitution requires gender parity among its national Co-Chairs and Co-Vice Chairs, its National Committee members and alternates and seated members of its branch- and region-elected delegations to the party's biennial National Conventions.[55][56][57] The Socialist Party also rejected the new healthcare reform law of 2010 approved by the Obama administration, with Socialist Party National Co-Chair Billy Wharton claiming it to be "a corporate restructuring of the health insurance industry created to protect the profit margins of private insurance companies".[58]

During his campaign, 2008 Socialist Party candidate for President Brian Moore was very vocal against the idea that Barack Obama was a socialist of any kind.[59] He further commented on the issue, saying it was "misleading of the Republicans" to spread that message.[60] In a later statement about Obama's policies, Wharton called Obama's 2010 State of the Union Address a "public relations ploy" and concluded saying: "The time for slick public relations campaigns has ended—the time for building our grassroots movements is more urgent than ever. The Socialist Party USA stands ready to join in such a political revitalization".[61]

International affairs

The Party's National Action Committee condemned the Israeli actions during the Gaza War. The party demands that the Federal government of the United States cease providing military aid to Israel as a precondition for peace. The party also sought to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan.[62] During the 2008 presidential election, the Socialist Party continued to place a strong emphasis on its full-scale opposition to American wars abroad, with Brian Moore, the presidential candidate, claiming the war was destroying small communities throughout the country. He also criticized what he called "pressure on the local governments" by the Bush administration.[63] The Socialist Party of Connecticut denounced Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan, claiming that the President wasted needed resources the country needed to get pulled out of the financial crisis. After denouncing him, the state affiliate organized a protest in front of the federal building in Hartford.[64]

In April 2017, the party issued a statement opposing further United States intervention into the Syrian Civil War.[65] Ten days later, the party issued a follow-up statement opposing both the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack and United States' subsequent missile strike.[66] In May 2017, the party condemned the Manchester Arena bombing and stood "against any attempt to turn this tragedy into political capital to further right-wing agendas and target oppressed communities".[67]

Government

 
Greg Pason has run for office on the Socialist Party ticket several times since 1994.

Socialist Party candidates, such as New Jersey gubernatorial and senate candidate Greg Pason, have also emphasized immediate public service demands—these reforms include socializing the United States health care system, a steeply graduated income tax, universal rent control and the elimination of all educational debts and tuition fees.[68] In 1997, Pason called auto insurance "a regressive tax against working people".[69] Moore was also vocal of his support for public healthcare and socialized medicine.[70] Moore believes that capitalism is a system based on both exploitation and selfishness, which operates to serve the interests of corporations and the ruling class at the expense of workers and the poor. During his presidential campaign, he claimed that the lack of available remedy to collapsing economic conditions stems from the capitalist system's foundation upon "greed" and advocated its replacement with a new system founded upon economic democracy through social ownership and workers' control of our reigning industrial and financial institutions.[59]

State and local parties

As of June 2020, the Socialist Party had thirteen chartered locals and two chartered state parties.[71] There are also local organizers active in Arkansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.

State parties

Former state parties

Locals

Presidential tickets

 
David McReynolds was twice the nominee for President.
 
2012 nominee Stewart Alexander
Year Results Candidates Ballot
access
Misc. Notes
Votes Percent For President For Vice President
1976 6,038 0.01% Frank Zeidler J. Quinn Brisben 7 [72][73]
1980 6,898 0.01% David McReynolds Diane Drufenbrock 10 [74][75]
1984 72,161 0.08% Sonia Johnson Richard Walton 19 Endorsed the Citizens Party ticket [76][77]
1988 3,882 0.0% Willa Kenoyer Ron Ehrenreich 6 [78][79]
1992 3,057 0.0% J. Quinn Brisben Barbara Garson 4 [80][81]
1996 4,764 0.0% Mary Cal Hollis Eric Chester 5 [82][83]
2000 5,602 0.01% David McReynolds Mary Cal Hollis 7 [84][85]
2004 10,822 0.01% Walt Brown Mary Alice Herbert 8 [86]
2008 6,581 0.01% Brian Moore Stewart Alexander 8 [87][88]
2012 4,430 0.0% Stewart Alexander Alejandro Mendoza 3 [89][90]
2016 4,061 0.0% Mimi Soltysik Angela Nicole Walker 3 [91]
2020 404,084 0.3% Howie Hawkins Angela Nicole Walker 31 Also nominated by the Green Party [92][93]

See also

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References

Further reading

  • David A. Epstein, Left, Right, Out: The History of Third Parties in America. Arts and Letters Imperium Publications. 2008.
  • Alan Feuer, "Inside Socialist Party Headquarters". The New York Times. October 20, 2008.
  • R. W. Tucker, "The Debs Caucus: A Party Within a Party". Madison, WI. Socialist Party of Wisconsin. December 1970.

External links

  • Official website  
  • The Radical Pamphlet Collection at the Library of Congress contains materials from the Socialist Party of the United States of America.
  • The Mapping American Social Movements project at the University of Washington has mapped votes, membership, newspapers, and elected officials, membership by state and more.

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House Seats0 1 972State Lower House Seats0 5 411Local Offices4 2022 2 3 4 Websitewww wbr socialistpartyusa wbr netPolitics of United StatesPolitical partiesElectionsThe party is officially committed to multi tendency socialism Along with its predecessor Socialist Party USA has received varying degrees of support when its candidates have competed against those from the Republican and Democratic parties It advocates for complete independence from the Democratic Party Self described as opposing all forms of oppression specifically capitalist and authoritarian statist systems the party advocates the creation of a radical democracy that places people s lives under their own control a classless feminist socialist society free of racism sexism homophobia or transphobia in which the people own and control the means of production and distribution through democratically controlled public agencies cooperatives or other collective groups full employment is realized for everyone who wants to work workers have the right to form unions freely and to strike and engage in other forms of job actions and production of society is used for the benefit of all humanity not for the private profit of a few 6 Headquartered at the A J Muste Institute the party s national office is located at 168 Canal Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York City The party has chartered state organizations in Michigan and New Jersey as well as several locals throughout the country 7 In October 2019 the Socialist Party nominated Howie Hawkins for President of the United States in the 2020 election Hawkins also received the Green Party 2020 presidential nomination and ran for that of various state level parties such as the Liberty Union Party in Vermont in a bid to unite the non sectarian independent Left behind a single campaign 8 Contents 1 History 1 1 Background 1 2 Founding 1 3 Subsequent history 1 4 Membership 1 5 Current elected members 2 Ideology 2 1 Political positions 2 1 1 International affairs 2 1 2 Government 3 State and local parties 3 1 State parties 3 2 Locals 4 Presidential tickets 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksHistory EditBackground Edit See also Socialist movement in the United States and Socialist Party of America In 1958 the Independent Socialist League led by Max Shachtman dissolved to join the Socialist Party of America which was founded by Eugene V Debs 9 Shachtman 10 had written that Soviet communism was a new form of class society bureaucratic collectivism in which the ruling class exploited and oppressed the population and therefore he opposed the spread of communism 11 12 Shachtman also argued that democratic socialists should work with activists from labor unions and civil rights organizations to help build a social democratic realignment of the Democratic Party Though he died on November 4 1972 and had little involvement with the Socialist Party in the year proceeding his death his followers identified as Shachmanites exercised a tremendous amount of influence on the party 11 In its 1972 convention the Socialist Party changed its name to Social Democrats USA by a vote of 73 to 34 13 The change of name was supported by the two Co Chairmen Bayard Rustin and Charles S Zimmerman of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union ILGWU 14 and by the First National Vice Chairman James S Glaser these three were re elected by acclamation 13 Renaming the party as SDUSA was meant to be realistic The New York Times observed that the Socialist Party had last sponsored Darlington Hoopes as its candidate for President in the 1956 election who received only 2 121 votes which were cast in only six states Because the party no longer sponsored candidates in presidential elections the name party had been misleading party had hindered the recruiting of activists who participated in the Democratic Party according to the majority report The name Socialist was replaced by Social Democrats because many American associated the word socialism with Soviet communism 13 The party also wished to distinguish itself from two small Marxist parties 15 The convention elected a national committee of 33 members with 22 seats for the majority caucus 8 seats for Harrington s coalition caucus 2 for the Debs caucus and one for the independent Samuel H Friedman 16 who also had opposed the name change 13 The convention voted on and adopted proposals for its program by a two one vote with the majority caucus winning every vote 16 On foreign policy the program called for firmness toward Communist aggression However during the Vietnam War the program opposed any efforts to bomb Hanoi into submission and to work for a peace agreement that would protect Communist political cadres in South Vietnam from further military or police reprisals Harrington s proposal for an immediate cease fire and an immediate withdrawal of U S forces was defeated 16 Harrington complained that after its previous convention the Socialist Party had endorsed George McGovern with a statement of constructive criticism and had not mobilized enough support for McGovern 15 After their defeat at the convention members of two minority caucuses helped to found new socialist organizations At most 200 members of the Coalition Caucus joined Michael Harrington in forming the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee DSOC 17 which later became the Democratic Socialists of America DSA 18 19 At its start DSOC had 840 members of which 2 percent served on its national board in 1973 when SDUSA stated its membership at 1 800 according to a 1973 profile of Harrington 17 Second many members of the Debs Caucus joined David McReynolds in reconstituting the Socialist Party USA also in 1973 20 Founding Edit The Debs Caucus formed the Union for Democratic Socialism and on May 30 1973 incorporated the Socialist Party of the United States of America 20 usually simplified as the Socialist Party USA 21 third party source needed Many activists from the local and state branches of the old Socialist Party including the party s Wisconsin California Illinois New York City Philadelphia and Washington D C organizations participated in the reconstitution of the Socialist Party USA 19 third party source needed After its founding the party promoted itself as the legitimate heir of the Socialist Party of America 22 Former Mayor of Milwaukee Frank Zeidler was elected the first national chairperson of the party Zeidler also helped re organizing the party structure during its early years He was later nominated as the party s candidacy for the presidential office with Zeidler believing the party would be able to collaborate with other socialist parties nationwide to spread the message of socialism 23 Subsequent history Edit Since 1976 a member of the party was elected to the city council of Iowa City and several members have won tens of thousands of votes in elections for statewide offices In 1982 William Shakalis running for State Senate from Cambridge Mass on the Socialist Party line received 12 3 of the vote against an incumbent Democratic State Senator 24 In 1992 Socialist Iowa City Councilwoman Karen Kubby won her re election with the highest vote in a contested election in the history of the Iowa City Council and was re elected until retiring from the Council in 2000 25 In 2000 Socialist Wendell Harris received 19 of the vote for Mayor of Milwaukee Wisconsin in the primary 26 In 2008 Socialist Jon Osborne pulled in 22 of the vote for Rhode Island s 34th District State Senate seat while listed on the ballot under the Socialist Party USA label 27 During the 2010 United States Senate elections Dan La Botz of the Socialist Party of Ohio received 25 368 0 68 votes in Ohio 28 In 2011 Socialist Matt Erard was elected to a three year term on the city of Detroit s Downtown District Citizens District Council 29 In 2012 Socialist Pat Noble unseated his incumbent opponent in winning election to the Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education 30 Socialist John Strinka received 9 8 of the vote while running with the party s ballot label for Indiana s 39th district State House seat 31 and Socialist Troy Thompson received 27 of the vote for Mayor of Floodwood Minnesota 32 Also in 2012 candidate Mary Alice Herbert received 13 1 of the vote for Vermont Secretary of State while running with the dual nomination of both the Socialist and Vermont Liberty Union parties 33 34 In 2016 the party endorsed Jarrod Williams for U S Senate in Nevada 6 888 votes 0 6 Seth Baker for the Maine State Senate 3 712 votes 16 7 and Michael Anderson for the Michigan State House of Representatives 1 584 votes 4 8 Both Baker and Anderson ran as Green Party candidates 35 36 37 38 In 2018 the Socialist Party of Michigan endorsed Matt Kuehnel for the Michigan State House of Representatives a libertarian socialist who ran as a Libertarian Party candidate 999 votes 3 3 39 The party also endorsed Maia Dendinger for Maine State Senate 1 109 votes 7 1 40 David Elliot Pritt for the West Virginia House of Delegates 2 358 votes 6 and Andrew Saturn as Public Utility Commissioner in Thurston county Washington 41 664 votes 41 7 41 42 Dendinger ran under the Socialist Party label whereas Pritt ran as a Mountain Party candidate Pat Noble was re elected as member of the Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education without opposition In 2020 Socialist Jonny Meade received 5 14 of the vote for Washington s 22nd District State House seat 43 Adriana Cerrillo won her race for the Minneapolis Board of Education 4th district first advancing from the primary with 38 1 of the vote and winning the general in a narrow race with 49 9 44 45 46 The party won its third elected official when Samantha Pree Stinson won a seat on the Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation Pat Noble was re elected as member of the Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education without opposition Membership Edit According to the party s first chairman Frank Zeidler the party had around 500 members nationwide in 1975 23 The Socialist Party experienced substantial growth during the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s expanding from only around 600 dues paying members to around 1 700 47 In 2008 WMNF claimed that the party had around 3 000 paying members 48 However a CommonDreams article suggested that the organization had only 1 000 members in 2010 with party members claiming it to be an increase in the number of members 49 In May 2011 an article from The New York Times stated that the party has about 1 000 members nationally 50 In February 2012 an article from The Root stated that the party had a membership around 1 500 51 52 Pat Noble National Co Chair of the Socialist Party Current elected members Edit Pat Noble member of the Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education 2 53 Adriana Cerrillo member of the Minneapolis School Board for District 4 3 Samantha Pree Stinson member of the Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation 54 Ideology EditPolitical positions Edit While some party members favor a more gradual approach to socialism most others envision a more sweeping or revolutionary transformation of society from capitalist to socialist through the decisive victory of the working class in the class struggle 55 Some party members also advocate revolutionary nonviolence or pacifism while some consider armed struggle a possible necessity The party s Statement of Principles rejects equating socialism with a welfare state and calls for democratic social revolution from below 55 The party is strongly committed to principles of socialist feminism and strives to further embody such commitment in its organizational structure Its national constitution requires gender parity among its national Co Chairs and Co Vice Chairs its National Committee members and alternates and seated members of its branch and region elected delegations to the party s biennial National Conventions 55 56 57 The Socialist Party also rejected the new healthcare reform law of 2010 approved by the Obama administration with Socialist Party National Co Chair Billy Wharton claiming it to be a corporate restructuring of the health insurance industry created to protect the profit margins of private insurance companies 58 During his campaign 2008 Socialist Party candidate for President Brian Moore was very vocal against the idea that Barack Obama was a socialist of any kind 59 He further commented on the issue saying it was misleading of the Republicans to spread that message 60 In a later statement about Obama s policies Wharton called Obama s 2010 State of the Union Address a public relations ploy and concluded saying The time for slick public relations campaigns has ended the time for building our grassroots movements is more urgent than ever The Socialist Party USA stands ready to join in such a political revitalization 61 International affairs Edit The Party s National Action Committee condemned the Israeli actions during the Gaza War The party demands that the Federal government of the United States cease providing military aid to Israel as a precondition for peace The party also sought to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan 62 During the 2008 presidential election the Socialist Party continued to place a strong emphasis on its full scale opposition to American wars abroad with Brian Moore the presidential candidate claiming the war was destroying small communities throughout the country He also criticized what he called pressure on the local governments by the Bush administration 63 The Socialist Party of Connecticut denounced Obama s troop surge in Afghanistan claiming that the President wasted needed resources the country needed to get pulled out of the financial crisis After denouncing him the state affiliate organized a protest in front of the federal building in Hartford 64 In April 2017 the party issued a statement opposing further United States intervention into the Syrian Civil War 65 Ten days later the party issued a follow up statement opposing both the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack and United States subsequent missile strike 66 In May 2017 the party condemned the Manchester Arena bombing and stood against any attempt to turn this tragedy into political capital to further right wing agendas and target oppressed communities 67 Government Edit Greg Pason has run for office on the Socialist Party ticket several times since 1994 Socialist Party candidates such as New Jersey gubernatorial and senate candidate Greg Pason have also emphasized immediate public service demands these reforms include socializing the United States health care system a steeply graduated income tax universal rent control and the elimination of all educational debts and tuition fees 68 In 1997 Pason called auto insurance a regressive tax against working people 69 Moore was also vocal of his support for public healthcare and socialized medicine 70 Moore believes that capitalism is a system based on both exploitation and selfishness which operates to serve the interests of corporations and the ruling class at the expense of workers and the poor During his presidential campaign he claimed that the lack of available remedy to collapsing economic conditions stems from the capitalist system s foundation upon greed and advocated its replacement with a new system founded upon economic democracy through social ownership and workers control of our reigning industrial and financial institutions 59 State and local parties EditAs of June 2020 update the Socialist Party had thirteen chartered locals and two chartered state parties 71 There are also local organizers active in Arkansas Maryland Minnesota Mississippi Texas Utah Virginia and Wyoming State parties Edit Socialist Party of Michigan Socialist Party of New Jersey Socialist Party of WisconsinFormer state parties Socialist Party of California Socialist Party of Maine Socialist Party of KansasLocals Edit Bay Area Socialists Los Angeles Socialist Party Socialist Party of Western Connecticut Socialist Party of Kalamazoo County Socialist Party of Southern New Hampshire Central New Jersey Socialist Party Northern New Jersey Socialist Party Capital District Socialist Party of New York Socialist Party of New York City Northern Piedmont Local Central Oregon Socialist Party Socialist Party of Coastal South Carolina Puget Sound Socialist PartyPresidential tickets Edit David McReynolds was twice the nominee for President 2012 nominee Stewart Alexander Mimi Soltysik Angela Nicole Walker 2016 See also List of presidential nominating conventions in the United States Prohibition and socialist parties Year Results Candidates Ballotaccess Misc NotesVotes Percent For President For Vice President1976 6 038 0 01 Frank Zeidler J Quinn Brisben 7 72 73 1980 6 898 0 01 David McReynolds Diane Drufenbrock 10 74 75 1984 72 161 0 08 Sonia Johnson Richard Walton 19 Endorsed the Citizens Party ticket 76 77 1988 3 882 0 0 Willa Kenoyer Ron Ehrenreich 6 78 79 1992 3 057 0 0 J Quinn Brisben Barbara Garson 4 80 81 1996 4 764 0 0 Mary Cal Hollis Eric Chester 5 82 83 2000 5 602 0 01 David McReynolds Mary Cal Hollis 7 84 85 2004 10 822 0 01 Walt Brown Mary Alice Herbert 8 86 2008 6 581 0 01 Brian Moore Stewart Alexander 8 87 88 2012 4 430 0 0 Stewart Alexander Alejandro Mendoza 3 89 90 2016 4 061 0 0 Mimi Soltysik Angela Nicole Walker 3 91 2020 404 084 0 3 Howie Hawkins Angela Nicole Walker 31 Also nominated by the Green Party 92 93 See also EditList of elected socialist mayors in the United States Brian Moore 2008 presidential campaign Stewart Alexander 2012 presidential campaign Mimi Soltysik 2016 presidential campaign Howie Hawkins 2020 presidential campaignNotes Edit a b Party Structure a b Celock John January 7 2013 Pat Noble 19 Year Old Socialist Takes New Jersey School Board Seat HuffPost Retrieved January 28 2021 a b Incumbent Kim Ellison wins at large seat as Minneapolis school board candidates focus on equity issues Star Tribune With all precincts reported MPS News school board results At Large Collin Beachy Beachy4Schools Sonya Emerick SonyaForMPS Twitter The article of this organization shall be the Socialist Party of the United States of America hereinafter called the Party Art I of the Constitution of the Socialist Party USA Socialism As Radical Democracy Statement of Principles of the Socialist Party USA Socialist Party USA Retrieved August 4 2021 Directory Socialist Party USA Retrieved August 4 2021 Howie Hawkins Wins Socialist Party USA Nomination Green Candidate Seeks To Build Left Unity With Multiple Nominations Howie Hawkins Presidential Campaign October 28 2019 Retrieved October 28 2019 The Dictionary of Labour Quotations Biteback September 11 2013 ISBN 9781849546546 2008 p 63 a b Drucker 1994 Drucker Peter 1994 Max Shachtman and his left A socialist s odyssey through the American Century Humanities Press ISBN 0 391 03816 8 Beichman Arnold July 28 2002 Communism to anti communism in lives of two rival editors review two ISI books James Burnham and the struggle for the world A life by Daniel Kelly and Principles and heresies Frank S Meyer and the shaping of the American conservative movement by Kevin J Smant The Washington Times Retrieved July 14 2011 a b c d Anonymous December 31 1972 Socialist Party now the Social Democrats U S A The New York Times p 36 Archived from the original on August 14 2016 Retrieved July 4 2017 The New York Times reported on the Convention for other days e g Johnston Laurie December 31 1972 Young Socialists support Meany Group urges the Democrats to join labor movement The New York Times p 36 Johnston Laurie December 28 1972 Young Socialists defeat motion favoring recognition of Cuba The New York Times p 15 Archived from the original on January 15 2017 Gerald Sorin The Prophetic Minority American Jewish Immigrant Radicals 1880 1920 Bloomington Indiana University Press 1985 p 155 a b Anonymous December 27 1972 Young Socialists open parley 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June 5 2010 Mcauliff Michael March 22 2010 Tea Party Head Spinner Socialists Oppose Health Bill New York Daily News Retrieved March 28 2010 a b Harrington Elizabeth October 29 2008 Socialist Party Candidate Visits U Tampa CBS News Retrieved February 7 2010 Frank John October 23 2008 Top of Socialist Party ticket says Obama s not a believer Tampa Bay Times Retrieved July 4 2012 Altimari Daniela January 28 2010 Socialist Party response to Obama s state of the union speech Hartford Courant Retrieved February 7 2010 End the Massacre in Gaza No Solution Through Violence Indybay January 1 2009 Retrieved February 7 2010 Jackson Tom September 4 2007 Likeable Guy Brandishes Loony Ideas The Tampa Tribune Altimari Daniela December 1 2009 If Obama s a socialist his comrades aren t happy Hartford Courant No War In Syria Socialist Party USA April 10 2017 Retrieved May 29 2017 Statement On the Khan Sheikhoun Massacre and the US Strike Against the Assad Regime April 19 2017 Retrieved May 29 2017 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