EUGENE VICTOR DEBS (1855-1926) was one of the greatest and most articulate advocates of workers’ power to have ever lived. During the early years of the labor movement in the United States, Debs was far ahead of his times, leading the formation of the American Railway Union (ARU) and the American Socialist Party.
Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on November 5, 1855. He left home at 14 to work on the railroad and soon became interested in union activity. As president of the American Railway Union, he led a successful strike against the Great Northern Railroad in 1894. Two months later he was jailed for his role in a strike against the Chicago Pullman Palace Car Company. While in jail, Socialist and future Congressman Victor Berger talked with Debs and introduced him to the ideas of Marx and socialism. When he was released from prison, he announced that he was a Socialist.
He soon formed the Social Democratic Party, which eventually became the Socialist Party in 1901. He became their perennial presidential candidate. He ran on the Socialist ticket in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920 when he received his highest popular vote—about 915,000 (3.4%)—from within a prison cell. He had been arrested once again, this time for “sedition”; because he opposed World War I. Many Socialists were imprisoned during this time because they felt that the war was being fought for the profits of the rich, but with the blood of the poor. Debs was fortunately released in 1921.
Debs died in Elmhurst, Illinois, on October 20, 1926, but he is remembered to this day by countless labor activists from all over the political spectrum. The Eugene V. Debs Foundation works to continue his legacy into the 21st century...
To learn more about Debs and his life, read Stephen Marion Reynolds’ Biography of Eugene V. Debs for a full accounting of his life and times.
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Attack on titan just ended and I was really hoping the things everyone was saying about it were exaggerated, but no, it's a pretty bad ending. It's straight up pro-genocide. Before the ending I thought people calling it a fascist story were stretching, because the portrayal of fascism in the show is very critical, but then the ending makes it that genociding the entire world is the only way to achieve peace and the fascists were right all along. It sucks because I still think the first three seasons are amazing, really good mystery/fantasy, and most of the fourth season is good political fantasy. But then it starts down the genocide train and time travel nonsense and it's like "oh ok so everything we cared about was actually pointless in the end".
It seems like the anime made it even worse since it moved the epilogue further forward in time so it doesnt even feel like a direct consequence of the global genocide but just an inane liberal-crypto-fascist message about how war and violence is just a detached inherent feature of human nature.
Yeah that's definitely one of the worst things, the message the anime leaves you with is "war is inevitable because humans are evil by nature", which is just so fucking stupid. What a worthless ideology. The series is completely lacking in imagination in making a better world, everyone is either a fascist or uselessly naive. There are no people arguing for rights for all Eldians or anything like that, Armin is literally the only pacifist in the world. Its a complete misunderstanding of everything the story is trying to talk about, war, fascism, political violence, hatred etc. Saying that all these things come about because war is in human nature brings the conclusion that there is no point trying to make the world a better, peaceful place. What a shitshow of an ending
Do you have any recommendations? I started watching this show with my daughter, but she was still so angry, after watching A Silent Voice, that she couldn't really get into it, and I'm not sure that I care to finish if the payoff is this bad. I keep googling for teenage girl anime and it keeps giving me tear jerkers, when I really want a good mix with minimal panty shots.