Intercollegiate Socialist Society
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The Intercollegiate Socialist Society was the a Socialist student organization from 1905-1921. It attracted many prominent intellectuals and writers and acted as the unofficial Socialist Party of America student wing. While not an "activist" group in the modern sense, the Society sponsored lecture tours, magazines, seminars and discussion circles all over the US aimed at propagating socialist idea among Americas college population. The group expanded into a more "Fabian" philosophy in the 1920s that did not focus exclusively, or even primarily on college students. To symbolize the shift in emphasis the group changed its name to the League for Industrial Democracy
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League for Industrial Democracy
The League for Industrial Democracy , from 1960-1965 known as the Students for a Democratic Society , was founded in 1905 by a group of notable socialists including Harry W. Laidler, Jack London, Norman Thomas, Upton Sinclair, and J.G. Phelps Stokes...
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