Charles Homans
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 Aug
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And socialist candidates win a fair amount of elections across the country.
You know, they're not a massive movement, but socialists held assembly seats in a lot of states that would surprise you today, places like Oklahoma, Texas.
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upper Midwest socialist mayors in a lot of cities in New York, California, really all over the place.
And they really hit their pinnacle with Eugene V.
Debs, who was the most famous socialist politician of this time period.
Debs was a union organizer and a Democratic assemblyman from Indiana who became the perennial candidate for the Socialist Party of America in five presidential elections.
Wow.
And really works to try to convince all these disparate groups of working class people in the United States to see themselves as a class and to see themselves with a sense of solidarity with each other.
So Debs topped out at six percent of the vote in nineteen twelve, which was not a lot, but was enough to make him part of the political conversation and to make socialism really part of the political conversation in the country at that time.
At the time it was defined pretty clearly as public control of the workings of the economy for the benefit of the workers.
And in the Debs era, the socialists kind of saw this as the beginning of a real ascent into the mainstream of American politics, but that's not what happened.
What happened instead?
So the socialists ran afoul of the government of Woodrow Wilson, specifically over World War One.
The socialists were very opposed to US involvement in the war.
Debs encouraged young men to avoid the draft.
And this ended up getting him prosecuted under the Espionage Act.
And so by the time he runs for president in nineteen twenty, he's doing it from prison.
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situation.
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