From the various socialist factions’ fight emerged the Socialist Labor party in 1877, the Socialist party in 1901, and the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies) in 1905. The political influence of the American socialists as a protest movement reached its “peak” in 1912 when “more than 1,000 Socialists held elective public office, largely at the municipal level.”
It is not surprising in the 21st century that the socialist globalist movement of U.N. Agenda 21/2030 started at the local level with ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives). To escape the negative influence of its original name, ICLEI is now calling itself Local Governments for Sustainability, still using the same local plans and the global warming Armageddon as an excuse to rob the global populace of its wealth and private property and redistribute it to whomever they decide.
Initially, Socialism did not get as far as intended because the federal government established the Department of Labor in 1913, minimum wage laws, industrial safety regulations, workmen compensation benefits, and other work-related protections for the labor force. That rendered socialism temporarily obsolete until they developed new plans and ideas to take over the minds and indoctrinate millions into its absurd ideology.
In 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution began a reign of terror in Russia. Their communism (Marxism-Leninism) was the “revolutionary, materialistic ideology used by its adherents to justify their efforts to seize power by all means for the forcible establishment of a world-wide totalitarian social order.”
Historians called the year 1917 the birth of “Lenin’s creed of violence.” It was a “creed of force and violence” which spread quickly around the world to other countries. The new adherents to communism were not allowed to search for truth, they were indoctrinated and forced to believe in communism’s debunked “scientific” principles, in its faulty ideology which interpreted nature, history, and society on false premises. The communist society was never opened to questions or criticism by anyone who had divergent opinions. If they dared, they were thrown in gulags.