What The Left Can Learn From Eugene Debs
February 5, 2019
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"Yet the socialism embraced by Debs at the turn of the 20th century and shared by his modern disciples hardly evokes bomb-throwing anarchists or doctrinaire commissars. Debs’s creed was as American as the Indiana heartland from which he hailed. He read Marx, but he cited Thomas Paine and Abraham Lincoln. “I believe in patriotism,” Debs declared. It was the callous capitalists of the industrial era who had betrayed the country’s ideals.
By 1894 Debs had spent 20 years fighting for the rights of railroad workers. That year the employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago walked off the job. Members of Debs’s American Railway Union voted to cease handling the elegant sleepers and dining cars the company produced. The sudden cessation of much of the county’s rail traffic brought on a national crisis."*
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