Social Democracy of America | |
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| Founded | June 15, 1897 |
| Dissolved | September 1898 |
| Preceded by | American Railway Union |
| Succeeded by | Cooperative Brotherhood Social Democratic Party of America |
| Ideology | Democratic socialism Utopian socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
The Social Democracy of America (SDA), later known as the Cooperative Brotherhood, was a short lived political party in the United States that sought to combine the planting of an intentional community with political action in order to create a socialist society. It was an organizational forerunner of both the Socialist Party of America (SPA) and the Burley, Washington cooperative socialist colony.
The party split into political and colonization wings at its convention in 1898, with the political actionists establishing themselves as the Social Democratic Party of America (SDP).