Юджин Дебс — одна из фигур, без которых невозможно представить историю не только американского, но и мирового профсоюзного движения. The Eugene Debs Museum filled me with hope for a world without exploitation.
Антивоенная речь Юджина Дебса в исполнении Марка Руффало
Оффлейнер Team Spirit Магомед 'Collapse' Халилов и саппорт OG Себастьян 'Ceb' Феликс Альбер Дебс в интервью на ESL One Birmingham 2024 поделились мнениями. Джо Байден сегодня — Байден назвал США самой важной страной. Сенатор США Скотт заявил о недоверии американцев администрации Байдена. Redefining masculinity for the betterment of society as a whole, and offering men and boys a version of manhood where they can be their authentic This day in 1919, Socialist leader Eugene V Debs is sent to prison for violating the Espionage Act in his opposition to WWI. By Eugene DebsNovember 11, 2014 International Relations.
June 16, 1918: Eugene V. Debs Speech Against WWI
While in prison, Debs would recieve letters and reading material via mail from across the country. At the time of his sentencing, he still did not consider himself a socialist, but after reading material written by socialist authors such as Edward Bellamy and Karl Kautsky, he began to learn more and gradually converted to socialism. He was even visited in prison in person by Victor L. Berger , who gave him a copy of Capital by Karl Marx. After being released from prison, Eugene Debs would begin his new career of involvement in explicitly socialist organizations. Debs convinced fellow ARU members to join forces with the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth - a group advocating the creation of socialist intentional communities - to form the political party Social Democracy of America.
At the origins of the Socialist Labor Party Plans for socialist colonies advocated by the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth soon proved unfeasible. While Debs and DeLeon had personal political disagreements, they recognized the importance of forging an alliance between the groups and labor unions they represented.
Киберспортсмен выделяет его, как самого опасного представителя команды оппонентов. Бывает, что в команде есть игрок, который может впасть в тильт или что-то подобное, но мы на такой стадии турнира, где подобное не происходит. Это ведь слабость, а команды с таковыми далеко не заходят.
Марк зачитал эту речь в рамках проекта «Голоса народной истории Соединённых Штатов» в церкви Всех Святых в Пасадене, Калифорния, 1 февраля 2007 года.
He noted the charge was "ludicrous. Read more Socialist leader Debs spoke against U. The Sedition Act of 1918, which was repealed in 1920, sought to make anti-war statements treasonous. He also criticized the government for detaining anti-war activists, as per The Washington Post.
He was arrested weeks later, and many American newspapers at the time dubbed the socialist a traitor or a dictator. During his trial, Debs said he believes "in free speech, in war as well as in peace. While in prison, Debs launched his "from the jail house to the White House" campaign in 1920 after previously running for president in 1904, 1908 and 1912 as the Socialist Party of America nominee.
Юджин В. Дебс — рыцарь борьбы за свободу
In this country—the most favored beneath the bending skies—we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their labor to that machinery to produce in abundance for every man, woman, and child—and if there are still vast numbers of our people who are the victims of poverty and whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth to old age, until at last death comes to their rescue and lulls these hapless victims to dreamless sleep, it is not the fault of the Almighty: it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that ought to be abolished not only in the interest of the toiling masses but in the higher interest of all humanity. I believe, as all Socialists do, that all things that are jointly needed and used ought to be jointly owned—that industry, the basis of our social life, instead of being the private property of a few and operated for their enrichment, ought to be the common property of all, democratically administered in the interest of all. This order of things cannot always endure. I have registered my protest against it. I recognize the feebleness of my effort, but, fortunately, I am not alone.
There are multiplied thousands of others who, like myself, have come to realize that before we may truly enjoy the blessings of civilized life, we must reorganize society upon a mutual and cooperative basis; and to this end we have organized a great economic and political movement that spreads over the face of all the earth. There are today upwards of sixty millions of Socialists, loyal, devoted adherents to this cause, regardless of nationality, race, creed, color, or sex. They are all making common cause. They are spreading with tireless energy the propaganda of the new social order.
They are waiting, watching, and working hopefully through all the hours of the day and the night. They are still in a minority. But they have learned how to be patient and to bide their time. The feel—they know, indeed—that the time is coming, in spite of all opposition, all persecution, when this emancipating gospel will spread among all the peoples, and when this minority will become the triumphant majority and, sweeping into power, inaugurate the greatest social and economic change in history.
In that day we shall have the universal commonwealth—the harmonious cooperation of every nation with every other nation on earth. I realize that finally the right must prevail. I never so clearly comprehended as now the great struggle between the powers of greed and exploitation on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of industrial freedom and social justice. I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity.
The people are awakening. In due time they will and must come to their own. When the mariner, sailing over tropic seas, looks for relief from his weary watch, he turns his eyes toward the southern cross, burning luridly above the tempest-vexed ocean. As the midnight approaches, the southern cross begins to bend, the whirling worlds change their places, and with starry finger-points the Almighty marks the passage of time upon the dial of the universe, and though no bell may beat the glad tidings, the lookout knows that the midnight is passing and that relief and rest are close at hand.
Let the people everywhere take heart of hope, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning. His citizenship was not restored until five decades after his 1926 death. The labor movement and socialist party he had struggled to build had been ruthlessly crushed, often through violent attacks orchestrated by the state and corporations and mass arrests and deportations carried out during the Palmer Raids in November 1919 and January 1920. The government had shut down socialist publications, such as Appeal to Reason and The Masses.
The breakdown of capitalism saw a short-lived revival of organized labor during the 1930s, often led by the Communist Party, and during a short period after World War II, and this resurgence triggered yet another prolonged assault by the capitalist class. We have returned to an oligarchic purgatory. Wall Street and the global corporations, including the fossil fuel industry and the war industry, have iron control over the government.
Up to 30 workers were killed during the strike, thousands were blacklisted , and Debs was imprisoned for six months along with other ARU officers. Going to jail Wikipedia Commons Eugene V. Debs and other officers of the ARU were convicted of violating the federal injunction and the U. Supreme Court upheld the convictions. According to the New Yorker , Debs was sentenced to six months while the others were sentenced to three.
While Debs was imprisoned in the jail in Woodstock, Illinois he began learning more about socialism from pamphlets and books that socialists sent him in the mail. In his piece " How I Became a Socialist ," Debs writes that he "began to read and think and dissect the anatomy of the system in which workingmen, however organized, could be shattered and battered and splintered at a single stroke. Berger, who brought him a copy of "Das Kapital" by Karl Marx. But Debs would later write that it was "defeated but not conquered —overwhelmed but not destroyed. Debs was released from jail, he was met by a crowd of over 100,000 people, and that he spoke to them about using their vote to overturn the capitalistic government. With this in mind, Debs stepped back into the political fray. Although Debs endorsed William Jennings Bryan during the race against William McKinley, after seeing how businessmen used their money to get McKinley elected, Debs "abandon[ed] his devotion to the two-party system. But by their second convention, the organization dissolved and became instead the Social Democratic Party of America.
Kansas Heritage writes that Debs became the treasurer of the newly founded party, and in 1900, accepted its nomination to run for president of the United States. However, despite an "enthusiastic campaign," Debs only got 0. In " Eugene V. Debs: an American paradox ," J. Because Debs repeatedly ideas that some considered radical at the time, many of the policies ended up being adopted by both the Democratic and Republican parties while Debs was still alive. Although Debs never succeeded in getting any electoral votes, the New Yorker reports that in 1912, Debs received almost 1 million votes. Although Debs would never end up becoming president, due to his efforts with the Socialist Party of America, the party held "over 1,000 elective offices in 33 states and 160 cities" according to Kansas Heritage. In 1916, Debs changed his aim and decided to run for Congress in Indiana instead, advocating for American neutrality in World War I as part of his campaign.
This led the United States to pass the 1917 Espionage Act, which created "criminal penalties for anyone obstructing enlistment in the armed forces," according to MTSU.
Являясь одним из организаторов-учридителей вначале социал-демократической, а потом, социалистической партии США, Дебс много путешествует по стране, с целью проведения лецкий на темы социализма. В 1904, 1908, 1912 и 1920 годы — Юджин Дебс выдвигается кандидатом от Социалистической партии Америки для участия в избирательной кампании на пост президента США. В 1904 году, за кандидата Дебса проголосовала всего около 20 тысяч избирателей. В 1908 году, Дебс получил около 500 тысяч голосов.
В 1920 году Дебс был выдвинут снова, в этот раз находясь в заключении, и показал примерно такие же результаты, что и на выборах в 1912 году.
Nevertheless, the strike went ahead anyway beginning on May 11, as union workers refused to handle Pullman train cars or any cars attached to them. Debs decided to support the strike, as thousands of rail workers across the country staged walk-outs in process.
In response, the federal government ordered a military crackdown in July, on the rationale that strikers had disrupted US Mail services distributed via Pullman cars. By the end of the strike on July 20, thirty workers had been killed. While in prison, Debs would recieve letters and reading material via mail from across the country.
At the time of his sentencing, he still did not consider himself a socialist, but after reading material written by socialist authors such as Edward Bellamy and Karl Kautsky, he began to learn more and gradually converted to socialism. He was even visited in prison in person by Victor L. Berger , who gave him a copy of Capital by Karl Marx.
Премия Юджина В. Дебса
But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street, go to war. Debs in Canton, Ohio on June 16, 1918. The working class have never yet had a voice in declaring war.
Эллиотт расширил забастовку в Сент-Луис, увеличив ее размер вдвое до 80 000 рабочих, Дебс уступила и решила принять участие в забастовке, которую теперь поддержали почти все члены ARU в непосредственной близости от города. Забастовщики боролись, объявив бойкот вагонам поездов Pullman, и под руководством Дебс в конечном итоге забастовка стала известна как «Восстание Дебс». Президент Гровер Кливленд , которого Дебс поддерживала во всех трех его президентских кампаниях, послал армию Соединенных Штатов для исполнения судебного запрета. Присутствие армии было достаточно, чтобы сломить удар. Всего в ходе забастовки было убито 30 забастовщиков, 13 из них в Чикаго, тысячи попали в черный список.
Было повреждено имущество на сумму около 80 миллионов долларов. Дебс представлял Кларенс Дэрроу , позже ведущий Американский юрист и гражданский либертарианец, ранее работавший ным юристом в железнодорожной компании. Хотя обычно считается, что Дэрроу «перешел на другую сторону», чтобы представить Дебс, миф, повторенный биографией Ирвинга Стоуна «Кларенс Дэрроу в защиту», на самом деле он ушел с железной дороги ранее, после смерти своего наставника Уильяма Гауди. В постановлении по делу Верховного суда , In re Debs позднее было подтверждено право федерального правительства издать судебный запрет. Пуллман Страйк Во время ареста Что касается почтовых препятствий, Дебс еще не была социалисткой. Отбыв шестимесячный срок в тюрьме в Вудстоке, штат Иллинойс , Дебс и его товарищи из ARU постоянный поток писем, книг иброшюр по почте от социалистов со всей страны. Дебс вспоминал несколько лет спустя: Я начал читать, думать и анализировать анатомические системы, в которой рабочие, какими бы организованными они ни были, могли быть разбиты, разбиты и расколоты одним ударом.
Мне рано понравились труды Беллами и Блатчфорда. Кооперативное содружество Гронлунда произвело на меня впечатление, но труды Каутского были ясны и убедительны, что я легко уловил не только его аргументы, нои дух его социалистических высказываний. Кроме того, Дебс посетил в тюрьме редактор социалистической газеты Милуоки Виктор Л. Бергер , который, по словам Дебс, «пришел в Вудсток, словно орудие провидения, доставил первое страстное послание социализма, которое я когда-либо слышал».
Но индустриальное общество всё больше угрожало как аграрной, так и ремесленной независимости. Дебс признал, что в эпоху фабрик, железных дорог и товаров массового потребления нет никакой надежды уцепиться за это уже романтизированное прошлое: будущее экономического производства неизбежно будет социальным и взаимозависимым. Прочитав во время своего заключения в Вудстоке социалистические сочинения — прежде всего Карла Каутского — Дебс всё больше убеждался в необходимости кооперативной экономики, которая бы вырвала власть из рук плутократов и передала её обычным гражданам. Он был не первым членом рабочего движения США, который имел подобные мысли или формулировал их в республиканских терминах.
Они были лейбористскими республиканцами, которые считали, что рабочие фактически превращаются в рабов, подчиняясь воле работодателей. Если бы этот доминирующий контроль был устранён, гражданам пришлось бы «прививать республиканские принципы в нашу индустриальную систему», а не сохранять их только для политики, как выразился лидер профсоюзов Джордж Макнил. При такой системе трудовая жизнь будет ориентирована не на получение прибыли, а на удовлетворение человеческих потребностей. Рыцари создали множество кооперативов, принадлежащих самим рабочим, но эти эксперименты в конечном итоге зашли в тупик. Дебс пришёл к выводу, что необходимо нечто более амбициозное: подлинно коллективная собственность на средства производства и распределения. Если бы все граждане имели свою долю в экономике, где нет неподотчётных боссов, которые могут их уволить при малейшем намёке на выгоду, то у людей появилась бы экономическая безопасность, необходимая для того, чтобы их можно было считать по-настоящему свободными. Более того, на самом рабочем месте рабочие, а не капиталисты, смогли бы управлять организацией труда и, таким образом, не подчиняться прихотям владельцев, которые не несут ответственности перед теми, кого они наняли. Дебс приходит к социалистическому республиканству.
Хотя свобода, даруемая контролем над собственностью, остаётся центральной в этой республиканской истории, это уже не частная собственность. Вместо этого, «Экономическая свобода может быть результатом только коллективной собственности». Настоящая республика, по мнению Дебса, не может ограничивать демократию сугубо политической деятельностью, но должна быть основана на экономической демократии. И при этом ничего ценного не будет утрачено, поскольку «владельцы железных дорог и разных великих машин нужны нам не больше, чем нам нужен король». Именно этот идеал лёг в основу Социалистической партии Америки и её предшественницы, Социал-демократической партии Америки , которую Дебс помог создать в 1901 году. Этот поворот к электоральной политике был мотивирован не только возможностями для пропаганды, предоставляемыми избирательными кампаниями, но и осознанием того, что политическая должность необходима для существенного преобразования страны. Однако это не означало отказа от профсоюзной деятельности, которой Дебс посвятил большую часть своей жизни. Подобно тому, как он перешёл от ремесленных союзов, разделённых по типам должностей, к общеотраслевому Американскому союзу железнодорожников, Дебс пришёл к принятию ещё более обширной модели промышленного профсоюзного движения, которая стремилась объединить весь рабочий класс.
Таким образом, вместе со многими наиболее влиятельными членами рабочего движения США, Дебс внёс свой вклад в создание организации «Промышленные рабочие мира» в 1905 году. Они были нацелены на отмену наёмного труда и в конечном итоге стремились построить «новое общество внутри оболочки старого». Плакат Союза промышленных рабочих мира. Притягательность Дебса не ограничивалась его своевременной политической программой, а проистекала из его страстного и чуткого характера. Его речи становились легендой, и у трудящихся не оставалось сомнений в том, что он всегда будет сражаться на их стороне. Но он ненавидел демагогию и часто подчёркивал важность самообразования и следования голосу своей совести: Никакой я не профсоюзный лидер. Я не хочу, чтобы вы следовали за мной или кем-то ещё. Если вы ищете Моисея, который выведет вас из этой капиталистической пустыни, вы останетесь там, где находитесь.
Я бы не повёл вас в землю обетованную, если бы мог, потому что, если смогу вас туда завести, кто-то другой сможет вывести. Вы должны использовать не только руки, но и голову, чтобы выбраться из вашего нынешнего состояния. Это — социализм снизу. Требовались не отцы-командиры, которые с великой дальновидностью будут руководить классовой борьбой. Вместо этого рабочий класс должен освободиться, черпая свои силы из демократической энергии рабочих и граждан как единого целого. Всё ещё находясь за решёткой, он наберёт миллион голосов в качестве кандидата в президенты в 1920 году Эта забота о других не ограничивалась границами страны. Несмотря на то, что ему претил прусский милитаризм, Дебс считал, что Первая мировая война была бессмысленной катастрофой для рабочего класса всех вовлечённых в неё стран. В пламенной речи в Кантоне, штат Огайо, в 1918 году он выразил свой протест против войны.
Не прошло и двух недель, как Дебс был арестован за подстрекательство к мятежу, затем предстал перед судом и был приговорён к десяти годам тюремного заключения после того, как суд установил, что он пытался воспрепятствовать вербовке в армию. После вынесения приговора Дебс сделал одно из самых известных своих заявлений: Пока существует низший класс — я к нему отношусь, пока есть преступники — я один из них, пока хоть одна душа томится в тюрьме — я не свободен. Именно это искреннее отождествление с угнетёнными обеспечивало Дебсу такое признание на протяжении всей его политической карьеры. Действительно, он наберёт около миллиона голосов в качестве кандидата в президенты в 1920 году, будучи еще заключённым и не имея возможности проводить митинги или произносить речи. Победивший в этом состязании соперник, Уоррен Дж.
Such a deeply Machiavellian strategy might be possible, but all of these various prosecutions and trials will surely keep Trump at the top of the news cycle from now until November 2024, whether Election Day finds him still on trial or already serving time behind bars. As of a week ago, Trump had already been facing 71 separate state and federal felony indictments.
Then he was struck by the weightiest federal charge of all, accusing him of organizing a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results. These days American society is deeply polarized and most of the charges against Trump will be tried in venues such as DC, Manhattan, and Atlanta where the jury-pools are sure to be heavily larded with Trump-haters. With so many dozens of serious charges against him, our 45th President seems likely to end up behind bars. These latest indictments finally moved longtime progressive columnist and cartoonist Ted Rall into that same camp of outright Trump sympathizers. The massive vilification of Trump in such quarters indicates that those elites fear Trump as their most dangerous foe, so many voters may eventually conclude that the enemy of their enemy is at least worth a casual vote on the November ballot. But although countless American candidates throughout our history have bitterly complained about stolen elections and sometimes contested the outcomes, our rabidly partisan Democratic prosecutors have now decided to treat that behavior as a crime, apparently hoping to destroy their Trumpian nemesis using the power of the courts. This judicial innovation may be unique in the developed world and seems extremely rare even outside it.
Rather than being prosecuted and imprisoned, AMLO eventually gave up on his unofficial presidency and after creating a new party as his vehicle, ran for president a third time in 2018, winning in a huge landslide despite any election fraud. Fortunately for AMLO, his protests of a stolen election had occurred in 2006, long before Trump entered the scene, so any attempt by his own government to prosecute and imprison him would have surely been denounced and ridiculed by the American establishment as an outrageous violation of basic democratic principles. But these days, the globally-dominant and Trump-hating American media plays a very different tune, so the precedent of prosecuting a losing candidate for protesting alleged election fraud may soon spread worldwide. In Brazil, the conservative establishment had used a somewhat doubtful corruption conviction to block former President Lula from seeking to regain the presidency , but once it was overturned by the courts, he successfully did so, and his own courts then used the excuse of election protests to prohibit his defeated rightwing opponent President Bolsonaro from trying to do the same in four years time. In India, the ultra-rightwing Modi government is overwhelmingly popular, but still decided to take no chances. The parliamentary opposition is led by Rahul Gandhi, the son, grandson, and great-grandson of past Prime Ministers, but the government prosecuted him for making a public statement seeming to imply that Modi was crooked, successfully banning him from politics as a consequence, though on Friday a court overturned the verdict. I fear that all too many democratic or semi-democratic governments around the world will now eagerly seize upon the innovative electoral strategy pioneered by our own Democratic Party and henceforth use judicial means to eliminate their political rivals.
Moreover, while the ferociously anti-Trumpist media would never admit the possibility, the Donald and his angry supporters actually have a very strong case in their bitter complaints of a stolen 2020 election.
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He soon began to work as a painter in different railroads before embarking on a fireman position. The struggles and hardships taught him how to have a die-hard life. He had compassion for human beings no matter the religion or race. He felt for the poor workers who worked more for fewer pennies. There and then he created a Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen where he chaired the secretary and treasurer department. For the rest of his years, Debs received positive remarks for his subtle work. For this reason, he became the president of the American Railway Union. He also managed to attend his enrolled class around the area. In 1874 he resigned from his past job where he went ahead to work at a grocery shop.
He was a regular attendee where he was chosen to represent the Terre Haute lodge.
Thus, he then assisted in the organizing of the brakemen, switchmen, carmen and telegraphers among other crafts, into their respective craft unions. Not long after, Debs resigned his position as Secretary-Treasurer of the BLF despite the mass objection of the firemen rank and file.
After years of first hand experience with the failures of the old craft unionism, Debs was now firmly convinced of the need for this new advanced form of union — the industrial union — where all workers in the industry would be organized as a whole, as opposed to separated — and hence ineffectual — under the old outmoded craft union structure. The American Railway Union generated wide interest and support among the rail workers of North America. Rails were signing up at the rate of 2,000 a week, and within six months the new organization had 150,000 members!
ARU members from all crafts struck and the Great Northern was paralyzed. In less than three weeks time, the union had emerged victorious, winning nearly all of its demands.
Забастовка длится 18 дней. Владельцы железной дороги удовлетворяют все требования бастующих рабочих. По приказу президента США Г. Кливленда забастовка была подавлена федеральными войсками. Джирарде, штат Канзас. В 1908 и 1912 гг. Лудлоу, штат Колорадо; призывает рабочих к сопротивлению.
Дебс совершает турне по стране, выступает против войны в Европе, за установление мира между народами, против подготовки США к вступлению в Первую мировую войну. Публикует много сильных антивоенных статей. В этой победе он видел приближение окончания войны, усиление социалистического движения в США.
Debs is pictured in Chicago in an undated photo.
Debs was imprisoned in 1918 for violation of the Espionage Act — he was critical of the U. The morning had been dispiriting to say the least. Waking up to learn the Supreme Court said it was cool for Christians to discriminate against queer people but not cool for the president to relieve crumbs of student debt, while not shocking, somewhat hampered my enthusiasm for the day trip. He founded the American Railway Union in 1893, cofounded the American Socialist Party in 1900 and ran for president five times.
For his courage in speaking against a predatory capitalist war on behalf of the working poor who fought in it, he was jailed. His 10-year sentence was eventually commuted by President Harding in 1921. Today his house in Terre Haute is a museum.
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Eugene V. Debs, the Five-Time Socialist Candidate for President Who Once Campaigned From Prison
История злоключений Юджина Дебса, или как американское правительство боролось с «пятой колонной» в годы Первой мировой войны. This day in 1919, Socialist leader Eugene V Debs is sent to prison for violating the Espionage Act in his opposition to WWI. Not only is Sanders the obvious political successor to Debs, but the future of his candidacy may rest on the decision on Tuesday — the very anniversary of the final demise of Eugene Debs. Eugene V. Debs was a US politician and a member of the Socialist Party and ran for President five times since 1900.