Following a schism in the Socialistic Labor Party, the breakaway club reflected its members more revolutionary, anarchistic views.
They had lost faith in electoral change and authoritarian committees and instead believed in armed struggle and direct action to transform society.
Splinter factions sprouted across the country—Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, but most notably, New York—and were the seeds of the American revolutionary anarchist movement.
[2] On November 15, 1880,[3] a group of New York socialists left the SLP to found a Social Revolutionary Club that reflected their more anarchistic views.
[6] The New York club also organized a welcome reception for John Most the day of his arrival in the United States, in December 1882, with speeches from Schwab and Victor S.