Актёр Марк Руффало читает отрывок знаменитой антивоенной речи коммуниста и профсоюзного лидера Юджина Дебса.
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Хотя Юджин указывал на свободу слова, гарантированную Первой поправкой к Конституции США, Верховный суд приговорил его к 10 годам заключения и лишению гражданства. Марк зачитал эту речь в рамках проекта «Голоса народной истории Соединённых Штатов» в церкви Всех Святых в Пасадене, Калифорния, 1 февраля 2007 года.
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.
The social, political and civil rights won by workers in long and bloody struggles have been stripped away. Government regulations have been rolled back to permit capitalists to engage in abuse and fraud. The political elites, along with their courtiers in the media and academia, are hapless corporate stooges. Social and economic inequality replicates the worst excesses of the robber barons.
And the great civic, labor and political organizations that fought for working men and women are moribund or dead. We have to begin all over again. And we must do so understanding, as Debs did, that any accommodation with members of the capitalist class is futile and self-defeating. They are the enemy.
They will degrade and destroy everything, including the ecosystem, to get richer.
Between 1900 and 1916, Debs ran for president four times: once as the candidate for the Social Democratic Party in 1900; and then as the candidate for the Socialist Party of America in 1904, 1908, and 1912. Presidential Library. Woodrow Wilson, the victor of the election, would prove to be a tenacious antagonist to American socialists in the years to come. The Speech, Arrest, and Trial On June 16, 1918, while on his way to the Ohio state Socialist convention in Canton, Debs stopped to deliver a speech outside the Stark County Workhouse, where three local leaders of the Socialist Party were imprisoned for opposing the draft. Debs spent the following two hours speaking in front of a crowd of 1,200, which included plain clothes agents of the Justice Department , who circulated through the crowd demanding to inspect the draft cards of audience members. Writings and Speeches of Eugene V.
Debs 1948. Supreme Court which had recently struck down a law against child labor , and generally called for the abolishment of capitalism in the United States and world as a whole. The speech concluded without incident; Debs continued on to the state convention, and the audience dispersed and returned to their homes. Two weeks later, in Cleveland, Eugene Debs was arrested by U. I admit it. Gentlemen, I abhor war. United States, 249 U.
Debs was convicted of violating the Espionage Act and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. He appealed the conviction to the Supreme Court of the United States, which heard arguments in 1919. Even though Debs did not directly instruct his audience to oppose the draft or obstruct recruitment into the military, the Court concluded that his expressions of sympathy and solidarity for those convicted of doing so amounted to obstruction because his audience could have inferred that they should engage in illegal activity from the tone of his speech. The next year, the Socialist Party of America nominated Eugene Debs as their candidate for president for the fourth time.
It was under this law and its corresponding extension with the Sedition Act of 1918, that Debs would eventually be re-imprisoned. In addition to hoping to provide larger industrial unionism as opposed to the " narrow craft unionism " of the AFL, the IWW tried to appeal to the workers who were often discriminated against the most, including Black people, immigrants, and women. The Christian Science Monitor writes that Debs supported segregation on trains and effectively linked the labor movement to white men only.
Eventually, this view changed to the point where Debs decided that as long as Black people were considered inferior, then white workers would be exploited. Compared to the other labor movements and organizations at the time, the IWW was more inclusive to foreign-born workers because "they reasoned the only way to reduce competition between native and foreign workers was to organize the latter rather than exclude them from labor organizations," writes Jennifer Jung Hee Choi in "The Rhetoric of Inclusion: The I. W and Asian Workers. Debs published his ideas in editorials, essays, letters to editors, and interviews. Debs: an American paradox. And before long, his editorials had expanded in their focus. In addition to advocating for industrial unions, Debs defended First Amendment Rights and advocating pacifism in his pieces.
Debs gave a speech in a park in Canton, Ohio. There, he declared that "The working class have never yet had a voice in declaring war [... These were risky words and Debs knew it. On September 12, 1918, Debs was found guilty on three counts and in addition to being sentenced to 10 years in prison, his right to vote was taken away. At his sentencing, Debs stated "I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. In 1920, he ran for president one more time for the Socialist Party of America. Debs campaigned while in prison by issuing weekly campaign statements through the news wire service, according to Smithsonian Magazine.
Instead, he focused his attention on criticizing President Wilson, whom he described as "a tool of Wall Street. Debs returned to Terre Haute and tried to go back to his work as an activist, but most of his time was spent focusing on his health, which was poor before prison and had become even worse since. Although Debs was encouraged to join the Communist Party, he found himself in disagreement with the Soviet system and its suppression of dissent, and instead reaffirmed his commitment to democratic socialism, according to " Eugene V. During the special national convention in Cleveland in 1925, Debs described the event as so poorly organized and with such low attendance that Debs described the Socialist Party to be "as near a corpse as a thing can be. But by the summer of 1926, his health deteriorated to the point where he was forced to go into Lindlahr Sanitarium.
Eugene Debs, the Espionage Act, and the Election of 1920
Набрав 6 процентов голосов на президентских выборах 1912 года, Юджин Дебс нарушил новые национальные законы о борьбе с подстрекательством к мятежу. 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. Юджин Дебс — легенда американского рабочего движения, один из организаторов профсоюза «Индустриальные рабочие мира» и Социалистической партии Америки. Eugene V. Debs garnered nearly a million votes as the Socialist Party candidate in the 1920 presidential election, despite campaigning from a federal prison. Keep Consortium News going in the tradition of Bob Parry. Debs came to the conclusion that no strike or labor movement could ultimately be successful as long as the government was controlled by the capitalist class.
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If labor really wanted to control capital in the general interests of society, workers needed to challenge the institution of private property outright. In capitalism, private property primarily protects domination, not liberty. Economic liberty would not be realized in the pursuit of individual advantage but through collective self-government: participating in democratically planned production and distribution according to need. Dilemmas of Popular Sovereignty After his encounter with Marxism, Debs was adamant that capitalist society could never be made just. No justice was possible in a society where workers were robbed of the fruit of their labor in exchange for access to work, and where they were kept artificially poor amid rising abundance. Debs often discussed revolution as the realization of democracy, making its promise of popular sovereignty real. Debs often discussed revolution as the realization of democracy , making its promise of popular sovereignty real.
But popular sovereignty is an easy ideal to abuse, making this supposed consensus too contradictory to be coherent. Were workers in democratic America no less the slaves of their capitalist masters than workers in authoritarian Germany? Debs himself often tried to appease different factions in the socialist movement to preserve internal unity, so retrospectively, it can be easy for various camps to claim him as their own. Revolutionaries can highlight his praise of the Spartacist uprising in Germany and the Bolshevik revolution. Any honest account of Debsian democracy should emphasize that Debs believed in a democratic revolution that would fundamentally remake American political and social institutions. If capital and the state formed part of an integrated social system, it was an illusion to think that the forms of democracy permitted by American institutions could be radically weaponized against capitalist power.
Instead, a democratic power that might overcome capitalism had to spring from organizations substantially outside them. Eugene Debs, along with supporters and news reporters, poses for a photograph in front of the Hotel Harrington in December 1921, after his ten year sentence for speaking against World War I was commuted. Rather than simply reference American historical anecdotes, Debs and other socialists announced a future rupture in historical time, where the basic terms of political legitimacy would be refounded.
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. I explained those simple facts back in January 2021. Although hardly suggested by our mainstream media, the officially-reported results demonstrated that our 2020 presidential election was extraordinarily close. All the regular pre-election polls had shown the Democratic candidate with a comfortable lead, but just as had been the case four years earlier, the actual votes tabulated revealed an entirely contrary outcome. But control of the White House depends upon the state-by-state tallies, and these told a very different story. Incumbent Donald Trump lost Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin by such extremely narrow margins that a swing of less than 22,000 votes in those crucial states would have gotten him reelected.
Espousing socialism invites controversy from every corner, but Debs was never afraid to speak out and did so at great personal cost. While I was at the Debs house I thought about Republican Senator and Voldemort lookalike Rick Scott , who recently said socialists and communists were not welcome in the state of Florida. He is an example to all socialists. Faith in the people is crucial. It is ultimately the workers themselves who will bring about radical change.
What we should take from Debs, each and every worker, is his courage, his willingness to struggle. Like Moses never saw the promised land, Debs never saw socialism — may he forgive me for the comparison. But I know we will get there eventually.
Он устроился на работу в Vandalia Railroad смазка для очистки грузовиков грузовых двигателей за пятьдесят центов в день. Позже он стал маляром и чистильщиком автомобилейвжелезнодорожных мастерских. В декабре 1871 года, когда пьяный локомотивный пожарный не явился на работу, Дебс был задействован в качестве ночного пожарного. Он решил остаться пожарным в течение следующих трех с половиной лет. В июле 1875 года Дебс уехала работать в оптовый продуктовый магазин, где он оставался в течение четырех лет, посещая местную бизнес-школу по ночам. Дебслась присоединилась к Братству локомотивных пожарных BLF в феврале 1875 года и сталаактивной в организации. В 1877 году он служил делегатом ложи Терре Хот на национальной съезде организации.
Два года спустя он был назначен великим секретарем и казначеем BLF и редактором журнала в июле 1880 года. Он работал в качестве функционера BLF до января 1893 года. В то же время он стал заметной фигурой в обществе. Онпроработал два срока в качестве городского клерка Terre Haute с сентября 1879 года по сентябрь 1883 года. Осенью 1884 года он был избранным в Генеральная ассамблею штата Индиана как демократ на один срок.. Брак и семья Дебс вышла замуж за Кейт Метцель 9 июня 1885 года. Их дом до сих пор находится в Терре-Хот, на территории кампуса штата Индиана. Лейбористский активизм Железнодорожные братства были сравнительноконсервативными организациями, предоставленными предоставлением стипендий и услуг, а не на ведении коллективных переговоров. Их девизом было «Доброжелательность, трезвость и трудолюбие».
Премия Юджина В. Дебса
Socialist politician and trade unionist Eugene V. Debs, the preferred candidate of the Forverts and namesake of our radio signal, WEVD, ran for president in 1920 from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Eugene Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on November 5, 1855, to the family of French immigrants from Alsace, Jean Daniel and Marguerite Mari Bettrich Debs. As civil war hashtags are trending on social media and Trump is backed into a corner, desperate to find a distraction, let’s remember the wise words of legendary American socialist Eugene Victor Debs at. Юджин Дебс покидает Белый дом вскоре после своего освобождения из тюрьмы, 1921 год. Bernie and Eugene Debs cadence and intonations are eerily similar but in the most comforting way. For decades, many of Eugene Debs’s admirers have claimed that the socialist leader was a good, patriotic American unsullied by a foreign doctrine like Marxism.
Eugene Debs, the Espionage Act, and the Election of 1920
Юджин Дебс покидает Белый дом вскоре после своего освобождения из тюрьмы, 1921 год. Labor leader, socialist, and five-time presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) had a twofold relationship with the First Amendment. I’m not sure whether Donald Trump has ever heard of Eugene Debs, the austerely incorruptible early leader of America’s Socialist Party. The latest developments in Trump's legal battles are drawing comparisons to the historical presidential bids of socialist and anti-war activist Eugene V. Debs, who, despite not winning the. Alternately loved and reviled, Eugene Victor Debs was a passionate labor leader, a progressive political figure, and a formidable speaker in a time of great change in the United States. Офлейнер Тиа Чжун «JT-» Вэн решил подколоть саппорта OG Себастьяна «Ceb» Дебса перед очной встречей на ESL One Birmingham 2024 по Dota 2. Он предложил французу.
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