Social Democrats of the North: League for Social Reconstruction

About this episode

This episode discusses the League for Social Reconstruction and its role in shaping modern Canadian social democracy during the Great Depression.

The League for Social Reconstruction was a group of socialist thinkers, brought together by the crisis of the Great Depression, that laid the intellectual foundations for modern Canadian social democracy. Through the crisis of the Great Depression, Canadian socialist intellectuals came together as 'The League for Social Reconstruction' to lay out the political and economic ideas that would become the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the 1933 Regina Manifesto; the party's policy progra...

Topics covered

• social democracy
• Canadian history
• Great Depression
• socialist thinkers
• political ideas

Keywords

• League for Social Reconstruction
• Great Depression
• social democracy
• Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
• 1933 Regina Manifesto

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: League for Social Reconstruction, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

Books & works: 1933 Regina Manifesto

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