TY  - GEN
T1  - True mission : socialists and the Labor Party question in the U.S.
A1  - Chester, Eric Thomas
LA  - English
PP  - London ; Sterling, Va.
PB  - Pluto Press
YR  - 2004
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn666933070
AB  - In the election campaign of 2000, Al Gore and Ralph Nader polled many millions more votes than George W. Bush. Yet the US Left lost out, a casualty of the two-party system. This is a pattern which has been repeated many times over the years. The most contentious issues dividing the Left in the United States have been those related to the Democratic Party. This book explores the crucial moments in US history where the stranglehold of the two-party system was nearly broken. Presenting a detailed history of Labor party politics, beginning with Henry George's campaign for mayor of New York City in 1886, proceeding to Robert La Follette's independent presidential campaign of 1924, and the Socialist party's relationship to New York's American Labor Party in the early twentieth century, Eric Chester explores the history of Left in America up to and including the Nader campaign of 2000. Chester identifies key reasons why burgeoning political movements have failed. He examines the part played by trade union-based political parties. He also looks at the inabililty of populist middle-class parties to establish ideological or organisational groundings for a viable third party. Looking to the future, Chester proposes an alternative: drawing on the success of the Socialist Party at the turn of the last century, he lays out ideas for a mass-based socialist party as the only way forward towards genuinely independent politics.
OP  - 260
CN  - JK2265 .C46 2004
SN  - 9781849642262
SN  - 1849642265
SN  - 0745322158
SN  - 9780745322155
SN  - 074532214X
SN  - 9780745322148
SN  - 1281750379
SN  - 9781281750372
KW  - Sozialistische Arbeiter-Partei Amerikas.
KW  - Socialist parties : United States : History.
KW  - Elections : United States : History.
KW  - Third parties (United States politics) : History.
KW  - United States : Politics and government.
KW  - Partis socialistes : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Élections : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Tiers partis (Politique) : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - États-Unis : Politique et gouvernement.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Process : Political Parties.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : History & Theory.
KW  - Elections
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Socialist parties
KW  - Third parties (United States politics)
KW  - United States
KW  - USA
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -