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Social Democrats, USA


00:05:43 1 Socialist Party of America
00:10:06 2 Early years
00:12:34 3 Organizational activities
00:15:00 4 Member activities
00:18:21 4.1 A. Philip Randolph
00:20:36 4.2 Bayard Rustin
00:21:45 4.2.1 From protest to politics
00:23:18 4.2.1.1 Influence on William Julius Wilson
00:24:15 4.2.2 Labor movement, trade unions and social democracy
00:25:10 4.2.3 Human rights and ending discrimination against gays
00:26:12 4.3 Norman Hill
00:28:01 4.4 Tom Kahn
00:28:18 4.4.1 Civil rights
00:28:56 4.4.2 Support of Solidarity, the Polish union
00:32:32 4.4.2.1 Criticism of AFL–CIO
00:33:12 4.4.2.2 Aid through the 1980s
00:33:44 4.5 Sandra Feldman
00:34:17 4.5.1 Socialist activism
00:34:54 4.5.2 Teaching
00:36:01 4.5.3 United Federation of Teachers (UFT)
00:37:49 4.5.4 UFT President after Shanker
00:38:52 4.5.5 American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
00:40:27 4.6 Sidney Hook
00:43:07 4.7 Penn Kemble
00:46:35 4.8 Carl Gershman
00:47:14 5 Hiatus and re-foundation
00:48:48 6 Controversies
00:48:57 6.1 Anti-communism
00:49:38 6.2 Max Shachtman and alleged Trotskyism
00:51:59 6.3 Alleged conservatism or neoconservatism
00:54:24 6.3.1 Former member Joshua Muravchik
00:55:54 7 Conventions
00:56:03 7.1 After reorganization
00:56:12 8 Prominent members



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Social Democrats, USA (SDUSA) is an American association of social democrats founded in 1972. The Socialist Party of America (SPA) had stopped running independent candidates for President and consequently the name "party" had confused the public. Replacing the name "socialist" with "social democrat", SDUSA clarified its vision to Americans who confused social democracy with Soviet communism, which SDUSA opposed.In response, former SPA Co-Chairman Michael Harrington resigned from SDUSA in 1973 and founded the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), which criticized SDUSA's anti-communism and welcomed the New Politics movement associated with  George McGovern and the New Left. SDUSA members opposed McGovern's politics and a few of them helped to start the Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM) and such members have been called "Scoop" Jackson Democrats or neoconservatives (or both). SDUSA's members had been active in the civil rights movement, which had been led since the 1940s by A. Philip Randolph. SDUSA's leaders had organized the 1963 March on Washington, during which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. Under the leadership of Randolph and Bayard Rustin, SDUSA championed Rustin's emphasis on economic inequality as the most important issue facing African Americans after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. SDUSA's efforts to reduce economic inequality led to a focus on labor unions and economic policy and SDUSA members were active in the AFL–CIO confederation as well as in individual unions, especially the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
SDUSA's electoral strategy ("realignment") intended to organize labor unions, civil rights organizations and other constituencies into a coalition that would transform the Democratic Party into a social democratic party. The realignment strategy emphasized working with unions and especially the AFL–CIO, putting an emphasis on economic issues that would unite working class voters. SDUSA opposed the New Politics of Senator McGovern, which had lost all states other than Massachusetts to Richard Nixon at the 1972 election, when Americans voted for a Democratic House of Representatives in the House elections. While SDUSA had endorsed McGovern, it had adopted resolutions criticizing the New Politics for having made criticisms of labor unions and working class Americans and for its advocacy of an immediate and unconditional withdrawal from Vietnam.
SDUSA's organizational activities included sponsoring discussions and issuing position papers—it was known mainly because of its members' activities in other ...