Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time 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.
Early in his political career, Debs was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884. After working with several smaller unions, including the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Debs led his union in a major ten-month strike against the CB&Q Railroad in 1888. Debs was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union (ARU), one of the nation's first industrial unions. After workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company organized a wildcat strike over pay cuts in the summer of 1894, Debs signed many into the ARU. He led a boycott by the ARU against handling trains with Pullman cars in what became the nationwide Pullman Strike, affecting most lines west of Detroit and more than 250,000 workers in 27 states. Purportedly to keep the mail running, President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike. As a leader of the ARU, Debs was convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison.
In prison, Debs read various works of socialist theory and emerged six months later as a committed adherent of the international socialist movement. Debs was a founding member of the Social Democracy of America (1897), the Social Democratic Party of America (1898) and the Socialist Party of America (1901). Debs ran as a Socialist candidate for President of the United States five times: 1900 (earning 0.6 percent of the popular vote), 1904 (3.0 percent), 1908 (2.8 percent), 1912 (6.0 percent), and 1920 (3.4 percent), the last time from a prison cell. He was also a candidate for United States Congress from his native state Indiana in 1916.
Debs was noted for his oratorical skills, and his speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918. He was convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 and sentenced to a 10-year term. President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921. Debs died in 1926, not long after being admitted to a sanatorium due to cardiovascular problems that developed during his time in prison.
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I finally started and finished Andor.
I was waiting for the entire show to be out in order to begin watching it. Damn, it was a great show! I was really surprised by the quality of it. Thanks to whoever was recommending it to me probably around a year ago as a show on Stalin.
But being on Hexbear during this time was miserable, so many posts and spoilers about it. I had to deliberately use this less to avoid any spoilers and I had to block some of you who were Andor posting too much—unblocked now, though. I'm happy to be able to scroll again without worrying!
I don't have anything else to say or any grand analysis, but I loved the show! I'm just looking forward to seeing the young kids who watched this show, and internalized Andor as a hero, grow up. I know libs are already doing what they do best and desecrating it, but there will be plenty of future comrades who will understand it well enough.
here is an andor post now that you watched it
Hell yeah. I do wish we could've seen more successful indigenous acts of revenge but I understand it's framing the original trilogy as built on that. It would've been nice to scratch that itch though given everything lately.
That being said, every time I watched Andor & co. kill an imperial I was like
Inject this straight into my fucking veins.
I have friends who wait for a show or season to be out before watching it, and I can't recommend against doing that hard enough.
Nah, I think this is the best way for me to watch anything. I normally don't even watch popular shows anymore so I don't usually encounter the possibility of spoilers. This way I also don't wait months or years between episodes and seasons.
More importantly, I don't watch anything new that isn't finished and finished well. Why spend my years watching and thinking about some 9+ season show that fell off around season 4? Fuck that. I already watched Game of Thrones. I'd rather not be part of cultural moments and spend my time with something more meaningful, if there's a possibility it's all going to go to shit anyway and I'm going to be resentful I wasted my time.