Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party" in English language version.
In the 1920s, members of the national left-wing populist movement called the Nonpartisan League stood for election under a new banner, the Farmer Labor Party.
In Minnesota, the Farmer-Labor Party joined forces with the Democratic Party to form the DFL in 1944.
Real communists, however, Communist party-type communists, were a fact of life in 1930s politics. Olson dealt with them as other labor leaders had; that is, he allowed them into the party as part of the "Popular Front" against fascism, and used their organizational skills and zealotry to further his own agenda.
By and large, neither faction among the Finns became involved with the Nonpartisan Leagues or the forming Farmer-Labor Party until the Popular Front period beginning in 1936. At this time, the communists began to play an active role in Farmer-Labor politics and in the election of John Bernard to Congress, who won immediate fame for his lone vote against the Neutrality Act of 1937, an act which hamstrung aid to Republican Spain to the advantage of Francisco Franco.
The Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota was established in 1918 as a coalition of farmers and workers advocating for moderate political and economic reforms, alongside more radical elements like socialists and isolationists.
The Farmer-Labor movement founded the most successful third party in U.S. political history. This progressive movement elected candidates and advanced political change in Minnesota from 1917 until it merged with the Democrats in 1944, to form the DFL, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
Out of Duluth the social democratic Farmer-Labor Party had emerged in 1918 with the express purpose of uniting rural farmers with urban laborers as an oppressed class under the thumb of business and industry elites.
However, in 1918, the NPL expanded into neighboring Minnesota, where it joined forces with city worker-focused groups to form the Farmer-Labor Party (FLP).
The FLP carried on the NPL's mission while adding labor union protection to its platform, creating a broad, working-class movement statewide.
But the Farmer-Labor party wasn't formed to represent agricultural interests or rural interests. Rather, it was founded as a populist party with a socialist flavor, one that grew out of the Nonpartisan League, an effort by small farmers to fight the power of the grain conglomerates and the railroads, wrote Augsburg University professor Michael J. Lansing in his history of the movement, "Insurgent Democracy."
With protest by workers, farmers, and the unemployed rising, the Farmer-Labor convention adopts its Cooperative Commonwealth Platform, outlining a new economic system to replace monopoly capitalism.
Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Party (FLP) represents one of the most successful progressive third-party coalitions in American history.
The FLP developed a political viewpoint that was to the left of both the New Deal of the 1930s and the Democratic Party of the early 2000s.
However, the cooperation alienated some of the more radical elements in the coalition, such as the Socialists.
Even fewer scholars have looked into the history of laborism in the Midwest and the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party, the most successful labor union movement that still exists to this day as the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, or simply the Minnesota Democratic Party.
That would likely be cold comfort to the original Farmer-Laborers and their vision for a "cooperative commonwealth."
At its heart was a belief in a "cooperative commonwealth,"
However, poor economic conditions for farmers and workers led to the emergence of the Farmer-Labor Party in 1918, one of many parties with socialist influences in the United States.
Documentary about the history of the progressive Farmer-Labor movement in Minnesota from 1915 to 1944, when the party merged with the Democrats to form the DFL, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
In addition, some notable examples of social democratic third-party success at the subnational level are the Socialist Party in Oklahoma in the 1920s and 1930s, the Non-Partisan League in North Dakota, the Washington Co-operative Commonwealth in Washington State, the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, and the current Vermont Progressive Party, which has relationship with the Democratic Party.
In addition, some notable examples of social democratic third-party success at the subnational level are the Socialist Party in Oklahoma in the 1920s and 1930s, the Non-Partisan League in North Dakota, the Washington Co-operative Commonwealth in Washington State, the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, and the current Vermont Progressive Party, which has relationship with the Democratic Party.
