New Zealand Socialist Party

New Zealand Socialist Party
New Zealand Socialist Party
Founded	28 July 1901
Dissolved	1 July 1913
Merged into	Social Democratic Party
Ideology	Marxism; Socialism
Political position	Left-wing
	Politics of New Zealand; Political parties; Elections;

The New Zealand Socialist Party was founded in 1901, promoting the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The group, despite being relatively moderate when compared with many other socialists, met with little tangible success, but it nevertheless had considerable impact on the development of New Zealand socialism. It later merged in 1913 with a faction of the United Labour Party to form the Social Democratic Party.