Social Democrats of America

A Socialist Salon

• Statement on SDA
• Declaration of Principle
• Ethical Charter

Intro to the basic of Socialism in 10 minutes

What is Social Democracy?

What do we owe to Social Democracy?

The story of the Socialist Logo (French with English Subtitles)

Jeffrey Mehlman The Dreyfus Affair and the Shock of Anti-Semitism

The Democratic Party - Whose Party Is It, Anyway?

Olof Palme (Swedish Prime Minister - Swedish with English Subtitles)

Why Socialist politicians became Social-Democrats or Socialists

• Olof Palme (Swedish Prime Minister - Swedish with English Subtitles)
• The story of the Socialist Logo (French with English Subtitles)
• Fist and rose (Wikipedia)

The 2021 French Socialist Party Convention

• English Translated Documents (Machine Translated in English)
• French Contribution (in French)
• Reinventing the World after COVID

The Important Socialists Congresses (or Conventions)

• Marseille 1879
• Stuttgart 1907
• Lenin's take on the 1907 Congress

Understanding the differences between Communism and Socialism

• Trotsky letter of Invitation
• The 21 conditions that Socialists did not sign
• The 1st Comintern Congress where Communists quit the Socialist party.

Books to read

• Michael Harrington: Socialism - Past and Future
• Cyril Lionel Robert James: The Black Jacobins - Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

The important events that shaped the Socialist thinking

• The Dreyfus Affair
• The relationship between Marx and Lincoln
• The changes of values of the left over the last 100 years

Miscellaneous Videos

• The Black Jacobin and the First Black Revolutionary member of Parliament French with English Subtitles
• The New York City branch of the European Socialists party

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