1881 Chicago Social Revolutionary Congress

Anarchist meeting July 2022 July 2022 The Congress of Socialists of the United States, better known as the 1881 Chicago Social Revolutionary Congress, was a meeting of anarchists and socialists in Chicago in October 1881 to organize the new social revolutionary groups splintered from the American Socialistic Labor Party. Preparations The Chicago congress, officially known as the Congress of Socialists of the United States, was held October 21 to 23, 1881, with 21 delegates in North Side Turner Hall. Organized by the New York Social Revolutionary Club and American delegates to the London congress three months earlier, the meeting was called to gather social revolutionaries who believed in action outside of electoral politics. All socialists with this aim were invited to apply to August Spies of Chicago's Arbeiter-Zeitung newspaper, who served as the congress's secretary. Many German emigres attended, mostly representing East Coast and Midwest cities. It was the first meeting of what became the American anarchist movement.Avrich 1984 58–59 Proceedings Key figures in the congress included Justus Schwab, Albert Parsons, and August Spies. Resolutions addressed the British government in Ireland, the populists in Russia, and militant positions against private property, against wage slavery, for insurrectionary propaganda by the deed, and for the resolutions of the London congress. Avrich 1984 59 References Bibliography Avrich Paul Paul Avrich The Haymarket Tragedy 1984 978-0-691-04711-9 Princeton University Press Goyens Tom Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880–1914 2007 978-0-252-03175-5 Urbana, Illinois University of Illinois Press Messer-Kruse Timothy Timothy Messer-Kruse The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks 2014 978-0-252-09414-9 Urbana, Illinois University of Illinois Press The Working Class in American History mdy-all Anarchism Chicago Category:1881 conferences Category:1881 in American politics Category:1881 in Illinois Category:Anarchism in Illinois Category:History of anarchism Category:Anarchist congresses Category:October 1881 in the United States Category:19th-century political conferences Category:1880s in Chicago Category:Socialism in Illinois