Source Material Recommended for Reading by Members to Members and the Public

All members are invited to bring books to the attention of would be members or those in search of information regarding social democracy. The format is a simple listing with a hyper-link in alphanumeric order for ease of usage. We welcome all academic sources. Please use caution in open source material as there can be opinions placed that do not reflect a dynamic and fully fluid democratic style party. We realize that some material is either off topic, yet related, or could be somewhat conflicting with social democracy; however, we tend to acknowledge open debate and open minds as a powerful force for the analytical, judicious, and rational processes.

Biographical

Fiction

  • Utopia  by Sir Thomas More (critical thought for conversation edition)

Historical

Informative

Legal Insight

Living Changes

 - Building A Home

- Better Food
- Your Money

Organizing

Theory

Thought



Famous Quotes

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"I'd rather see America save her soul than her face." ~ Norman Matton Thomas, November 27, 1965, Speech before antiwar protest, Washington, D.C.

"There is no democracy without socialism, and there is no socialism without democracy." ~ Rosa Luxemburg, The Rosa Luxemburg Reader

"The Social Democracy deals with the possible, with the practical, with axiomatic propositions in the everyday affairs of life. It lays hold upon fundamental principles with unrelaxing grasp and challenges criticism. It makes humanity the focal, converging, and animating idea and proposes to lift it above chicanery into the clear, serene, and unbefogged realm of common sense. It beholds Labor a mendicant, half-fed and half-clothed, inhabiting hovels, forever doomed to play its part in the tragedy of toil, to die at last unknelled and uncoffined, destined to a hold in the Potters’ field, and proposes to lift it up and out of its degrading environments, not by pathways decked with the flowers of fancy, but along the lines of practical endeavor, where mind, muscle, skill, humanity, and home, in holy alliance, in well-adjusted, cooperative effort liberates the enslaved, gives a new birth to hope, aspiration, and ambition, and makes the desert blossom and the waste places glad — a condition in which, when a man earns a dollar he is not compelled to divide it with a capitalist, who, as now, scourges him to his task as if he were a galley slave, but takes to himself all the fruits of his labor, and thus emancipated by industrial and economic laws which elevate, bless, and adorn humanity, the devotee of Social Democracy advances by degrees until the fangs and pangs of poverty disappear, until in his own home fears of eviction no longer breed despair, until wife and children, the recipients of the benedictions of cooperative prosperity, enjoy the fruitions of peace and prosperity, and under their own vine and fig tree live as free from carking care as the songbirds of the woodlands." ~ Eugene Victor Debs (Founder of the Social Democratic Party of America), September 2, 1897, Labor Day Message, Published in The Social Democrat.

"What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain workers nor heart-sick hand workers, in a world, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realization at last of the meaning of the word commonwealth." ~ William Morris, Written for "Justice," 1884.

"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!" ~ Mary Harris Jones, Autobiography, 1925.