Bernie and Eugene Debs cadence and intonations are eerily similar but in the most comforting way. Keep Consortium News going in the tradition of Bob Parry. Their leader Eugene Debs, who actually ran for President more often than Joe Biden, summed up his view of the world in saying.
Eugene Debs, the Espionage Act, and the Election of 1920
Not only is Sanders the obvious political successor to Debs, but the future of his candidacy may rest on the decision on Tuesday — the very anniversary of the final demise of Eugene Debs. Labor leader, radical, Socialist, presidential candidate: Eugene Victor Debs was a homegrown American original. “It’s a stewing sense of unfairness last tapped to broad affect by a couple of his political heroes: socialist presidential candidates Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas, each of whom lost five times in the early. For decades, many of Eugene Debs’s admirers have claimed that the socialist leader was a good, patriotic American unsullied by a foreign doctrine like Marxism.
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Following this event, Debs began to become convinced of a more confrontational and unyielding approach, rooted in industrial unionism rather than craft unionism. In 1893, Debs would help found the American Railway Union , one of the first industrial unions in the United States and one of the largest labor unions of the time. Following early success with a strike on Great Northern Railway, the ARU would soon find itself involved with a strike by workers of the Pullman Palace Car Company in May 1894, following lay-offs and wage cuts along with high living costs in the Pullman company town. Debs was initially reluctant to support the strike due to his concerns over its potential risks and wherever the ARU had the capability to support it. Nevertheless, the strike went ahead anyway beginning on May 11, as union workers refused to handle Pullman train cars or any cars attached to them. Debs decided to support the strike, as thousands of rail workers across the country staged walk-outs in process. In response, the federal government ordered a military crackdown in July, on the rationale that strikers had disrupted US Mail services distributed via Pullman cars. By the end of the strike on July 20, thirty workers had been killed.
Workers taking businesses from the bourgeoisie is the right thing to do. It is my hope that American workers rise up and seize the businesses of the bosses and that the government seizes the bank accounts of those bosses. Ayn Rand called that looting. I am in favor of such looting. Robert K Stock on April 4, 2023 at 3:25 am said: I am not writing a book. I am not writing a dissertation. I am not giving a public address. If I were then I would need to provide sources. What we are doing is having a conversation as if we are at a kitchen table drinking coffee. Follow up questions? Cite sources? Hell no! I think you are one of the many pseudonyms used on this site. MaxZim V Zaslon on April 4, 2023 at 3:37 am said: Bubs, if you think you have no faith, why is it that you have so much faith that I am some boogeyman of yours? You seem quite convinced. You are advancing something just a technical hair short of a positive claim. Provide your evidence. Read about biofeedback loops and the power of positive thinking. Whatcha know about that? I know all about that! White Supremacist — check. Christian — check. Russian Orthodox Church. Taliban — to the extent this Islamic concept even translates into Christianity at all, it means religious student. Fair enough, I am an amateur self taught student of theology, among many other topics. Republicans are my favorite US major party. Government should be far more local than that, other than military national defense, which has nothing to do with political parties, or at the very least ought not to. You read Archipelago Gulag 40 years ago? Congratulations, ignoramus. Read it again, and every published public writing by and about Solzhenitsyn. Read his entire website. Read Dugin. Your arrogance and your ignorance are in a neck and neck race to the bottom, are they not?
In his piece " How I Became a Socialist ," Debs writes that he "began to read and think and dissect the anatomy of the system in which workingmen, however organized, could be shattered and battered and splintered at a single stroke. Berger, who brought him a copy of "Das Kapital" by Karl Marx. But Debs would later write that it was "defeated but not conquered —overwhelmed but not destroyed. Debs was released from jail, he was met by a crowd of over 100,000 people, and that he spoke to them about using their vote to overturn the capitalistic government. With this in mind, Debs stepped back into the political fray. Although Debs endorsed William Jennings Bryan during the race against William McKinley, after seeing how businessmen used their money to get McKinley elected, Debs "abandon[ed] his devotion to the two-party system. But by their second convention, the organization dissolved and became instead the Social Democratic Party of America. Kansas Heritage writes that Debs became the treasurer of the newly founded party, and in 1900, accepted its nomination to run for president of the United States. However, despite an "enthusiastic campaign," Debs only got 0. In " Eugene V. Debs: an American paradox ," J. Because Debs repeatedly ideas that some considered radical at the time, many of the policies ended up being adopted by both the Democratic and Republican parties while Debs was still alive. Although Debs never succeeded in getting any electoral votes, the New Yorker reports that in 1912, Debs received almost 1 million votes. Although Debs would never end up becoming president, due to his efforts with the Socialist Party of America, the party held "over 1,000 elective offices in 33 states and 160 cities" according to Kansas Heritage. In 1916, Debs changed his aim and decided to run for Congress in Indiana instead, advocating for American neutrality in World War I as part of his campaign. This led the United States to pass the 1917 Espionage Act, which created "criminal penalties for anyone obstructing enlistment in the armed forces," according to MTSU. It was under this law and its corresponding extension with the Sedition Act of 1918, that Debs would eventually be re-imprisoned. In addition to hoping to provide larger industrial unionism as opposed to the " narrow craft unionism " of the AFL, the IWW tried to appeal to the workers who were often discriminated against the most, including Black people, immigrants, and women. The Christian Science Monitor writes that Debs supported segregation on trains and effectively linked the labor movement to white men only. Eventually, this view changed to the point where Debs decided that as long as Black people were considered inferior, then white workers would be exploited. Compared to the other labor movements and organizations at the time, the IWW was more inclusive to foreign-born workers because "they reasoned the only way to reduce competition between native and foreign workers was to organize the latter rather than exclude them from labor organizations," writes Jennifer Jung Hee Choi in "The Rhetoric of Inclusion: The I. W and Asian Workers.
Debs, the Socialist Party presidential candidate, polled nearly a million votes without ever hitting the campaign trail. Debs was behind bars in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, serving a 10-year sentence for sedition. It was a not a bum rap. Debs had defiantly disobeyed a law he deemed unjust, the Sedition Act of 1918. The act was an anti-free speech measure passed at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson. The law made it illegal for a U. By the time he was imprisoned for sedition, Eugene Victor Debs had enjoyed a lifetime of running afoul of government authority. Born in 1855 into bourgeois comfort in Terre Haute, Indiana, he worked as a clerk and a grocer before joining the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1875 and finding his vocation as an advocate for labor. Representing American socialism For the next 30 years, Debs was the face of socialism in America. He ran for president four times , in 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1912, garnering around a million votes in the last cycle.
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Дебс произносит свою знаменитую антивоенную речь в г. Кантоне, штат Огайо, на съезде социалистов. Вскоре последовал арест, а позже за эту и другие речи, за выступления, осуждающие американскую капиталистическую систему, за приветствия российским большевикам Федеральный суд в г. Кливленде, штат Огайо, осудил Ю. Дебса на 10 лет строгого тюремного заключения. Атланта, штат Джорджия, выступает со статьями и корреспонденциями, осуждающими пальмеровские полицейские рейды, расправы с инакомыслящими. Дебс объясняет классовую суть двухпартийной буржуазной системы: республиканская и демократическая партии — это партии капиталистического класса, финансируемые и контролируемые капиталистами ради своих выгод. Дебса из тюрьмы, но он был лишен американского гражданства. Состоялась встреча Дебса с Гардингом в Белом доме. Терре-Хот, где Дебса его приветствовали тысячи горожан, рабочих.
Writings and Speeches of Eugene V. Debs 1948. Supreme Court which had recently struck down a law against child labor , and generally called for the abolishment of capitalism in the United States and world as a whole. The speech concluded without incident; Debs continued on to the state convention, and the audience dispersed and returned to their homes. Two weeks later, in Cleveland, Eugene Debs was arrested by U. I admit it. Gentlemen, I abhor war. United States, 249 U. Debs was convicted of violating the Espionage Act and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. He appealed the conviction to the Supreme Court of the United States, which heard arguments in 1919. Even though Debs did not directly instruct his audience to oppose the draft or obstruct recruitment into the military, the Court concluded that his expressions of sympathy and solidarity for those convicted of doing so amounted to obstruction because his audience could have inferred that they should engage in illegal activity from the tone of his speech. The next year, the Socialist Party of America nominated Eugene Debs as their candidate for president for the fourth time. After some deliberation, Debs accepted. The Election of 1920 Campaigning for president from a prison cell presented a number of challenges, notably that Debs, being confined to prison, could not go out and campaign. He was permitted to send out one statement on political issues [14] Eugene V. From there, his wife Kate mailed the letter to the Socialist Party headquarters in Chicago, where it was typeset and distributed to friendly newspapers and party publications. The process was less than ideal.
После 1921 года, Дебс отходит от активной политики и сосредостачивается на агитационной деятельности в пользу социализма. Вплоть до своей смерти, Дебс путешествует по Америке, устраивая лекции при поддержке своего брата Теодора Дебса. На покрытие этих и других расходов у Дебса часто уходили все его сбережения. В пору кризиса, для покрытия долгов профсоюзных организаций Дебсу приходилось брать кредит на своё имя. Лучшие дня Стас Михайлов: Бывший номер один российского шансона Посетило:8417.
But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street, go to war. Debs in Canton, Ohio on June 16, 1918. The working class have never yet had a voice in declaring war.
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Юджин Дебс — одна из фигур, без которых невозможно представить историю не только американского, но и мирового профсоюзного движения. Май 21, 2013 0 Комментариев 24 мая в Петербурге пройдет презентация сборника статей легендарного деятеля рабочего и социалистического движения США Юджина Дебса. As civil war hashtags are trending on social media and Trump is backed into a corner, desperate to find a distraction, let’s remember the wise words of legendary American socialist Eugene Victor Debs at. In 1916, with World War I raging, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs wrote a short piece condemning the nationalism that had thrown soldiers into trench warfare and machine-gun slaughter. By 1918, Eugene Debs was a veteran labor activist and a revered figure in the American left of the era.
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The socio-political beliefs that had attracted Debs and the other members to establish the defunct ARU now gathered to form the new Socialist Party with Eugene Debs as its head. Now a Celebrity, Debs Seeks Presidency Even while Debs immersed himself in socialist politics, he still sought the formation of a labor union that encompassed his goals of inclusivity for all workers. They saw American involvement as a class struggle wherein workers were to be sacrificed for corporate benefit and greed. As the United States moved onto a war footing, socialists like Debs enthusiastically voiced their opposition at speaking engagements and through the press. Their audience, however, grew smaller, and public opinion to a large degree turned against the socialists.
This wide-ranging act, still in existence today, made it a federal crime to interfere with, among other things, the Selective Service Act or military draft. With the act, federal judicial agencies wielded greater power to interpret violations of the law and indict its opponents. Debs Gives Speech Extolling Socialism.
Cox , governor of Ohio, for the Democrats. Yet Debs did not let incarceration keep his message from the voters. In 1920, broadcast radio was not a factor in electioneering, but another electronic medium was just beginning to be exploited for political messaging. On May 29, 1920, in a carefully choreographed event, newsreel cameras filmed a delegation from the Socialist Party arriving at the Atlanta penitentiary to inform Debs officially of his nomination. The New York Times was aghast that a felon might canvass for votes from the motion picture screen. Public opinion turns On Nov. Debs was a distant third, but he had won 3.
To be fair, that was when he was more mobile. Congress on Dec. But public opinion had turned emphatically in favor of the convict-candidate.
If this was true, capital and labor needed each other: capital would be idle without labor, and labor powerless without capital.
There can be no such quarrel unless it is caused by deliberate piracy on one side and unreasonable demands on the other. After workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company south of Chicago went on strike and sought out the ARU in a desperate plea for assistance, Debs and the union organized a sympathy boycott of Pullman cars around the country, refusing to hitch the luxury sleeping cars to trains or receive trains under Pullman control. Commerce radiating out of the Chicago metropolitan area ground to a halt, triggering a national crisis. A coalition of railway owners conspired with the attorney general to issue a federal injunction against the strikers an unprecedented tactic that the Supreme Court only ruled legal after the fact , the Democratic administration called in the national guard against the strikers, and Debs was sent to jail.
The episode showed Debs that when workers exercise control over both capital and their own labor at the industry-wide level, it is regarded as an overwhelming crisis, not the assertion of democratic bargaining rights. Without realizing it, the ARU was not striking for equal rights within a democratic state but at the core of capitalist power: its command of labor backed by the right to private property. Property and Freedom In his early years, Debs had accepted the sanctity of private property while insisting that labor had an equal right to shape how property was used. When Debs became a Marxist, he abandoned what is perhaps the cardinal myth of American nationalism: that private property and freedom are intimately connected.
In early America, the surest route to this kind of republican freedom was private ownership of land or small capital. With open access to private property, every settler would have an equal chance to acquire property and bargain with others, creating a nexus of voluntary agreements among free and equal partners. After his encounter with Marxism, Debs came to view the right to private property not as the basis of liberty, but a title to despotism. It consists in living labor serving accumulated labor as a means of maintaining and multiplying the exchange value of the latter.
Under capitalism, the labor process that makes capital productive is designed so that the investment it represents returns a profit. Eugene Debs c. The young Debs also intuited the right goal: labor should control capital, not the other way around.
Такой жизнью одни жили под властью других, чьей благосклонностью или неудовольствием определялось, будет ли в семье еда и крыша над головой. Находиться под каблуком класса, который видит, что вы умираете от голода — имея много хозяев, а не одного владельца — значит испытать, хотя бы в некоторой степени, характерную несвободу раба. Если целью была свобода, то решением для такой уязвимости не могли стать более любезные начальники, полные отцовской любви к своим работникам. Вместо этого контроль должен принадлежать гражданам, а не плутократам и их приспешникам. Это убеждение привело Дебса к социализму, который стремится обеспечить экономическую свободу для всех. Под конец жизни, снова оказавшись в зале суда, он выдвинул такое социалистическое требование: Всё то, что нужно всем и используется всеми, должно быть в совместном владении — промышленность, как основа общественной жизни, вместо того, чтобы находиться в частной собственности у небольшой группы лиц и использоваться для их обогащения, должна быть общей собственностью всех, и управляться демократически в интересах всех.
Этот вывод не был результатом ветренного энтузиазма юности или жизни, прошедшей в беспристрастных научных исследованиях. Он был выстрадан в неустанной борьбе в поддержку рабочих, которых пережёвывала и выплёвывала капиталистическая экономика и против плутократов, которых она обогатила. Время, проведённое Эбсом в тюрьме округа МакГенри, стало переломным моментом в развитии его политической мысли. Столкнувшись с объединённой властью промышленников, правительства и судебной системы, и в конечном итоге оказавшись за свои старания в тюрьме, Дебс ещё серьёзнее задумался о том, какое общество позволит людям быть свободными. То, что его ответом был социализм, может нас удивить. Возможно, социалистическое общество будет более равным, возможно, даже более справедливым, но зачем думать, что оно будет более свободным? Не будет ли стальной кулак государства активно лишать людей свободы, присваивая их собственность и помыкая ими? Дебс смотрел на это иначе и имел для своего суждения некоторые исключительно республиканские основания. Плакат 1965 года с одним из наиболее известных лозунгов Юджина В.
Существует давняя республиканская традиция, в которой свобода ассоциируется с собственностью. Древние часто предполагали, что свобода зависит от наличия времени для досуга и политической деятельности, предоставляемого владением землёй и рабами для её обработки. Экономическая независимость стала материальной основой свободы и сама покоилась на гарантированном владении частной собственностью. Можно встретить современных республиканцев, которые подхватывают призыв к предоставлению земли для граждан в более широком смысле — восхваляя независимого фермера или поселенца, который кажется несколько изолированным от произвола других, покуда может обеспечить себя своим собственным трудом. Другой моделью экономической безопасности, необходимой для свободы, был ремесленник, владевший собственными инструментами и мастерской. Но индустриальное общество всё больше угрожало как аграрной, так и ремесленной независимости. Дебс признал, что в эпоху фабрик, железных дорог и товаров массового потребления нет никакой надежды уцепиться за это уже романтизированное прошлое: будущее экономического производства неизбежно будет социальным и взаимозависимым. Прочитав во время своего заключения в Вудстоке социалистические сочинения — прежде всего Карла Каутского — Дебс всё больше убеждался в необходимости кооперативной экономики, которая бы вырвала власть из рук плутократов и передала её обычным гражданам. Он был не первым членом рабочего движения США, который имел подобные мысли или формулировал их в республиканских терминах.
Они были лейбористскими республиканцами, которые считали, что рабочие фактически превращаются в рабов, подчиняясь воле работодателей. Если бы этот доминирующий контроль был устранён, гражданам пришлось бы «прививать республиканские принципы в нашу индустриальную систему», а не сохранять их только для политики, как выразился лидер профсоюзов Джордж Макнил. При такой системе трудовая жизнь будет ориентирована не на получение прибыли, а на удовлетворение человеческих потребностей. Рыцари создали множество кооперативов, принадлежащих самим рабочим, но эти эксперименты в конечном итоге зашли в тупик. Дебс пришёл к выводу, что необходимо нечто более амбициозное: подлинно коллективная собственность на средства производства и распределения. Если бы все граждане имели свою долю в экономике, где нет неподотчётных боссов, которые могут их уволить при малейшем намёке на выгоду, то у людей появилась бы экономическая безопасность, необходимая для того, чтобы их можно было считать по-настоящему свободными. Более того, на самом рабочем месте рабочие, а не капиталисты, смогли бы управлять организацией труда и, таким образом, не подчиняться прихотям владельцев, которые не несут ответственности перед теми, кого они наняли. Дебс приходит к социалистическому республиканству. Хотя свобода, даруемая контролем над собственностью, остаётся центральной в этой республиканской истории, это уже не частная собственность.
Вместо этого, «Экономическая свобода может быть результатом только коллективной собственности». Настоящая республика, по мнению Дебса, не может ограничивать демократию сугубо политической деятельностью, но должна быть основана на экономической демократии. И при этом ничего ценного не будет утрачено, поскольку «владельцы железных дорог и разных великих машин нужны нам не больше, чем нам нужен король». Именно этот идеал лёг в основу Социалистической партии Америки и её предшественницы, Социал-демократической партии Америки , которую Дебс помог создать в 1901 году. Этот поворот к электоральной политике был мотивирован не только возможностями для пропаганды, предоставляемыми избирательными кампаниями, но и осознанием того, что политическая должность необходима для существенного преобразования страны. Однако это не означало отказа от профсоюзной деятельности, которой Дебс посвятил большую часть своей жизни. Подобно тому, как он перешёл от ремесленных союзов, разделённых по типам должностей, к общеотраслевому Американскому союзу железнодорожников, Дебс пришёл к принятию ещё более обширной модели промышленного профсоюзного движения, которая стремилась объединить весь рабочий класс. Таким образом, вместе со многими наиболее влиятельными членами рабочего движения США, Дебс внёс свой вклад в создание организации «Промышленные рабочие мира» в 1905 году.
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He returned to America after Germany smuggled him via submarine to Mexico to incite America into revolution. Following the Second American Revolution , Debs made peace with the Central Powers in 1918 calling back all troops that went to Europe and ceded territory to Mexico in the Treaty of Phoenix. Fighting ended in 1921, but before then Debs had already created a new Congress.
If war is right, let it be declared by the people — you, who have your lives to lose. For this speech he was arrested and convicted in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio under the war-time espionage law.
By Howard Zinn.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
В статье проанализирован процесс принятия закона через несколько месяцев после вступления США в войну. Просматривается история обсуждения закона начиная с 1915 г.
Данные законы накладывали определенные ограничения на свободу слова и впоследствии были многократно критикованы. Также дан подробный анализ судебной практики по наиболее резонансным делам, рассматриваемым Верховным Судом США, связанным с нарушением данного закона: дело Юджина Дебса Debs vs. United States , дело Шенка Schenk vs.
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| Забастовки, тюрьмы и человечность Юджина Дебса | Юджин Дебс покидает Белый дом вскоре после своего освобождения из тюрьмы, 1921 год. |
| Ceb назвал самого опасного игрока BetBoom Team | Текст научной работы на тему «История злоключений Юджина Дебса или как американское правительство боролось с «Пятой колонной» в годы первой мировой войны». |
| Eugene V. Debs, Presidential Contender | Текст научной работы на тему «История злоключений Юджина Дебса или как американское правительство боролось с «Пятой колонной» в годы первой мировой войны». |
Eugene V. Debs Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
In 1920, Socialist Eugene V. Debs ran for the Oval Office from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where he was known as "prisoner 9653," according to Smithsonian Magazine. Текст научной работы на тему «История злоключений Юджина Дебса или как американское правительство боролось с «Пятой колонной» в годы первой мировой войны». The standard biography of Eugene Debs is Nick Salvatore’s Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1982). The socialist leader Eugene Debs was jailed for opposing World War I. It didn’t stop his presidential campaign. Eugene V. Debs garnered nearly a million votes as the Socialist Party candidate in the 1920 presidential election, despite campaigning from a federal prison. Labor leader, radical, Socialist, presidential candidate: Eugene Victor Debs was a homegrown American original.