Tradition
Social Democratic Federation
Overview
The Social Democratic Federation (SDF) was a British socialist political party. The first socialist party in Britain, it was founded by H. M. Hyndman in 1881. Its members included William Morris, George Lansbury, James Connolly and Eleanor Marx. Many of its early leading members had previously been active in the Manhood Suffrage League.
The SDF battled through defections of its right and left wings to other organisations in the first decade of the twentieth century before uniting with other radical groups in the Marxist British Socialist Party from 1911 until 1920.
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In the course of events it had, however, changed, together with the class that it represented. The peculiar character of the Social Democracy is summed up in this: that democratic-republican institutions are demanded as the means, not to remove the two extremes—Capital and Wage-slavery—, but in order to weaken their antagonism and transform them into a harmonious whole. However different the methods may be that are…
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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It had its headquarters then in Birmingham and Manchester, and later in London; extorted the Reform Bill from the Oligarchs of the old Parliament by a union with the Liberal bourgeoisie, and has steadily consolidated itself, since then, as a more and more pronounced working-men's party in opposition to the bourgeoisie. In 1835 a committee of the General Working-men's Association of London, with William Lovett at its…
Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892
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In the name of its fundamental task, the Socialist Party mobilized the masses on the parliamentary ground as well as on others; but nowhere and at no time did any party bind itself to bring the masses to Socialism only through the gates of democracy. In adapting ourselves to the parliamentary regime, we stopped at a theoretical exposure of democracy, because we were still too weak to overcome it in practice.
Leon Trotsky, Dictatorship vs. Democracy
Close in meaning to Social Democratic Federation; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Social Democratic Federation
Related ideas
- Anarchism
- Atheism
- Karl Marx
- London
- Marxism
- Labour Party (UK)
- Fabian Society
- Socialist League (UK, 1885)
- Socialism
- Scotland
- Conservative Party (UK)
- William Morris
- Eduard Bernstein
- Socialist Party of Great Britain
- Utopian socialism
- Liberal Party (UK)
- Friedrich Engels
- World War I
- Free trade
- Eleanor Marx
Place in the tradition
Part of Social democracy.
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