The Dutch Bellamy Party (in Dutch: Nederlandse Bellamy-Partij) was a political party in the Netherlands that upheld the thoughts of the American utopian socialist Edward Bellamy. Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname A political party is a Political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within Government, usually by participating in electoral The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Utopian socialism is a term used to define the first currents of modern socialist thought Edward Bellamy (March 26 1850 &ndash May 22 1898 was an American Author and Socialist, most famous for his Utopian Novel,
The Bellamy-movement emerged in the Netherlands in 1927, and in 1933 the International Bellamy Association (IVB) was founded in Rotterdam. Rotterdam (pronounced) is the 2nd-largest City by population in the Netherlands, located in the province of By the end of the 1930s the IVB had around 10 000 followers. The IVB did, however, not involve itself in party politics.
During the Second World War, German occupation authorities banned IVB. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including During this period, a section of the movement felt a need to involve the ideals of Bellamy in party politics. On May 30 1945, just a few weeks after the end of the occupation the NBP was founded by a group of six IVB leaders in Groningen. Groningen is the capital city of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. The chairman of the party was J. Derksen Staats. IVB, which was reorganized after the war, did not actively support the idea of a political party.
The NBP contested the 1946 parliamentary election, with L. B. van den Muyzenberg as its top candidate. The party contested elections with the slogan of 'gradual yet consequent socialization of the means of production'. The party got 11 025 votes (0. 23%), about half of them in Rotterdam and the Hague. It got 1,04% of the Hague votes, 0. 86% in Rotterdam, 0. 72% in Haarlem, 0. in the past usually Harlem in English is a city in the Netherlands. 52% in Groningen, 0. 52% in Den Helder and 0. 38% in Arnhem. Arnhem ( ( South Guelderish: Èrnem) is a city and Municipality, situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands. [1] The party did not win any seat in the parliament.
After the elections, NBP entered into a period of decline. In April 1947 Van den Muyzenberg and the majority of the NBP members left to join the Progressive Party for a World Government. NBP ceased to exist shortly thereafter. [2]
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