The+Socialist+Party

 __The Socialist Party__ In 1901, the Social Democratic Party and the Social Labor Party formed together to create the Socialist Party which was lead by Eugene V. Debs. The Socialist Party strived to create an equal party that was not based on races, economic status, classless, and pro-feminism. In the election of 1904, Debs was nominated to run for the presidency to represent the Socialist Party. He ran against Theodore Roosevelt and got third place and 402,000 votes. In 1908, he ran again and increased the number of votes to 420,000. The Socialist Party was highly regarded and was very powerful for a third party.

"There have been twenty years of revolutionary education, agitation, and organization since the Haymarket tragedy, and if an attempt is made to repeat it, there will be a revolution and I will do all in my power to precipitate it. If they attempt to murder Moyer, Haywood, and their brothers, a million revolutionists at least will meet them with guns." - **Eugene V. Debs** “...the perfectability of man, and in an open society where mankind was neither chained to the past nor condemned to a deterministic future; one which people were capable of changing their condition for better or worse.” -**Theodore Roosevelt**

[|Party Platform:]  //The Socialist Party of the United States of America still exists today.//
 * **Freedom and Equality** - including freedom of speech, press, assembly and religion
 * **Production for Use, Not for Profit** - primary goal is to provide the necessary means of life: food, water, shelter, etc.
 * **Full Employment** - realized for everyone who wants to work
 * **Worker and Community Control** - dynamic, democratic socialist economy
 * **Ecological Harmony** - eco-friendly; caring for the earth
 *  ** Feminism ** - creating social change to define women's liberation



__Sources:__
 * 1) //A Survey of American History// by Alan Brinkley
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