Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 - October 20, 1926) on Workers and The Market(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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“...as a wage worker in capitalist society you are not a man at all. You are simply a thing. And that thing is bought in the labor market, just as hair, hides and other forms of merchandise are bought.”
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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