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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unrelated but I made baby bugs and I'm very happy theyre not maggots so far
look at my bugs you bastards
Your bugs are officially looked at
Hard to tell what variety of bug I'm looking at in your pic though
thank you for the pity look
from what I've put in there they're likely the next generation of isopods. I couldn't get a decent photo of them next to an adult due to the size difference (like sub-millimetre atm, those are moss leaflets they're crawling on)
My guess was isopods yeah
In which case...
NOT A BUG
crustacean
is creepy crawly, is bug, no?
Prepare to be blasted with KNOWLEDGE
Crustaceans are arthropods, but not bugs, and this is assuming the colloquial understanding of "bug" referring to any insect.
Getting technical, "bug" is an order of insects called hemiptera (also homoptera) which are the "true" bugs. (cicadas and most of the insects with bug in the name fall into these orders)
~~isopod~~ pillbug
checkmate
I said unrelated