Nationalist Clubs

This article is about the 19th-century American political movement. For other uses of "Nationalist", see Nationalist (disambiguation).

Nationalist Clubs were an organized network of socialist political groups which emerged at the end of the 1880s in the United States of America in an effort to make real the ideas advanced by Edward Bellamy in his utopian novel Looking Backward. At least 165 Nationalist Clubs were formed by so-called "Bellamyites," who sought to remake the economy and society through the nationalization of industry. One of the last issues of The Nationalist noted that "over 500" had been formed. Owing to the growth of the Populist movement and the financial and physical difficulties suffered by Bellamy, the Bellamyite Nationalist Clubs began to dissipate in 1892, lost their national magazine in 1894, and vanished from the U.S. political scene entirely circa 1896. However the movement had an impact by causing other socialist parties to be started in the U.S. and had an impact on politics in other countries even after 1896.

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