Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 - October 20, 1926) on Economics and Capital(published by RevoltSource) |
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American Socialist, Political Activist, Trade Unionist, Founding Member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Five Times the Presidental Candidate of the Socialist Party
: ....an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“The worker produces a certain thing. It goes from the manufacturer to the jobber, from the jobber to the wholesaler, and from the wholesaler to the retailer—each of these adding a profit, and when it completes the circle and comes back to the worker who produced it and he stands face to face with the product of his own labor, he can buy back, upon the average, with his paltry wage...”
Source: "Revolutionary Unionism," by Eugene V. Debs, Speech at Chicago, November 25, 1905.
"Revolutionary Unionism," by Eugene V. Debs, Speech at Chicago, November 25, 1905.
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