How Debs Became A Socialist by Paul D’Amato

Eugene V. Debs Museum

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Dandelion Salad

by Paul D’Amato
SocialistWorker.org
Originally published Feb. 18, 2011
April 29, 2019

In 1920, Eugene V. Debs, ran for president on the Socialist Party ticket and received a million votes–even though he was serving a prison term for speaking out against the First World War.

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How Debs became a socialist by Paul D’Amato (1989)

Dandelion Salad

by Paul D’Amato
SocialistWorker.org
February 18, 2011

Debs delivering a speech in Chicago in 1912.

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In 1920, Eugene V. Debs, ran for president on the Socialist Party ticket and received a million votes–even though he was serving a prison term for speaking out against the First World War.

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Is socialism possible in the U.S.? by Paul D’Amato (1989)

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Workers Of The World Unite!

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by Paul D’Amato
SocialistWorker.org
January 14, 2011

Paul D’Amato explains why the image of a classless, conflict-free society in the U.S.–the picture that dominates the media–was never a reality.

IN THE two decades after the Second World War Two, pundits and academics proclaimed the U.S. an exceptional society–one in which everyone was middle class and where concepts of class and class struggle were irrelevant.

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Which war crimes get prosecuted? by Paul D’Amato

Dandelion Salad

by Paul D’Amato
http://socialistworker.org
July 25, 2008

Paul D’Amato explains why some atrocities are decried, while others–especially when the perpetrators are the leaders of powerful governments–go unpunished.

TO GREAT fanfare in the Western media, the Serbian government recently arrested Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serb nationalist cause during the war in the former Yugoslavia in the early to mid-1990s, on war crimes charges.

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