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The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs Vol. III - The Path to a Socialist Party, 1897-1904 (Paperback)
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The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs Vol. III - The Path to a Socialist Party, 1897-1904 (Paperback)
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Eugene V. Debs exploded upon the national scene in 1894 as the
leader of a sensational strike by his American Railway Union (ARU)
against the Pullman Parlor Car Company-a job stoppage which
paralyzed the country's transportation network for nearly two
weeks. On January 1, 1897, the polarizing public figure Debs
declared his allegiance to international socialism, emerging as the
most widely recognized socialist in America. He would thereafter
tour the country relentlessly, speaking to large audiences and
writing hundreds of articles on political and economic themes over
the ensuing three decades. Debs almost singlehandedly established a
new political party, the Social Democracy of America, in the summer
of 1897, building upon the remnants of the depleted ARU. The
organization advanced a double agenda, seeking to promote both
electoral politics and the construction of socialist colonies on
the frontier-a dual focus which led to internal tensions and a
bitter split. In 1898 Debs cast his lot with Milwaukee publisher
Victor L. Berger in a new organization dedicated to political
action, the Social Democratic Party of America. After a split of
the older and larger Socialist Labor Party of America in 1899,
protracted unity discussions between the Debs group and an
organized body of former SLP dissidents ensued. This unity effort
was marked by Debs's first run for president of the United States
on a joint Social Democratic ticket in November 1900. After heated
on-again off-again negotiation between the two groups, a marriage
was finally brokered in the summer of 1901 and the Socialist Party
of America was launched. The party would soon grow to become the
third biggest in American politics, with Debs enthusiastically
heading the Socialist ticket in 1904 in the second of his five runs
for the presidency.
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