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The Socialist Party USA (SPUSA) is a multi-tendency socialist party in the United States. The SPUSA was founded in 1973 and is the ideological continuation and successor of the Socialist Party of America, which existed from 1901 to 1972. The party is officially committed to left-wing socialism. The Socialist Party USA, along with its predecessor, has received varying degrees of support when its candidates have competed against those from the Republican and Democratic parties. Some attribute this to the party having to compete with the financial dominance of the two major parties, as well as the limitations of the United States' legislatively〔Winger, Richard. "Institutional Obstacles to a Multiparty System," in ''Multiparty Politics in America'', Paul S. Herrnson and John C. Green, eds. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997)〕〔Ansolabehere, Stephen and Gerber, Alan. "The Effects of Filing Fees and Petition Requirements on U.S. House Elections," ''Legislative Studies Quarterly'' 21 no. 2 (1996)〕 and judicially〔Fitts, Michael A. "Back to the Future: Enduring Dilemmas Revealed in the Supreme Court's Treatment of Political Parties", in ''The U.S. Supreme Court and the Electoral Process'' (2nd ed.) David K. Ryden, ed. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2002 ISBN 978-0-87840-886-3 pp. 103-105 and ''passim''〕 entrenched two-party system. The Party supports third-party candidates, particularly socialists, and opposes the candidates of the two major parties. The Party self-describes as opposing all forms of oppression, specifically capitalism and authoritarian forms of Communism, the Party advocates for the creation of a "radical democracy that places people's lives under their own control - a non-racist, classless, feminist socialist society... where working people own and control the means of production and distribution through democratically-controlled public agencies, cooperatives, or other collective groups.; where full employment is realized for everyone who wants to work; where workers have the right to form unions freely, and to strike and engage in other forms of job actions; and where the production of society is used for the benefit of all humanity, not for the private profit of a few."〔http://www.socialistparty-usa.net/principles.html〕 While there are numerous political organizations in the United States that advocate Marxism–Leninism and derivatives of Marxism–Leninism, including Stalinism and Trotskyism, the Socialist Party USA is the only political party on the national level that advocates for democratic socialism. The SPUSA's National Office is located in the AJ Muste Institute in New York City. They currently have four chartered state organizations in California, Michigan, New Jersey, and New York, as well as eighteen chartered locals throughout the country.〔http://socialistparty-usa.net/states--locals.html〕 == History == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Socialist Party USA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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