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Eugene Debs in Podcasts

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Eugene Debs was a prominent socialist and presidential candidate in the early 1900s in the United States.

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The origins of the Socialist Party of America

Eugene Debs' role in the Pullman strike and the Liberty speech in Chicago made many see him as the champion of the working person in America.

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The origins of the Socialist Party of America

While Debs started out with pretty traditional Democratic views, as he got more involved in labor organizing, he started to become disillusioned.

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The origins of the Socialist Party of America

It's important to keep in mind that Debs still believed that labor and capitalism could coexist, that it was just a matter of fixing the system, not overhauling it.

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The origins of the Socialist Party of America

And the story here goes, Debs went to the statehouse and introduced legislation.

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The origins of the Socialist Party of America

Debs became determined to improve working conditions for rail workers and decided the way to do that was to get involved in government.

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The origins of the Socialist Party of America

Today on the show, the life and times of Eugene Debs and the birth of American socialism.

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The origins of the Socialist Party of America

His name was Eugene Debs, and he didn't know it then, but he was about to alter the course of labor rights in the U.S.