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| + | |text=Getting a living under [[capitalism]]... is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such [[pain]] and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and [[criminal]], but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition. | ||
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| + | |source_URL=https://www.themilitant.com/2009/7335/733549.html | ||
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| + | Eugene V. Debs was sent to [[prison]] in 1919, charged with violating the Espionage Act for having made an antiwar speech in Canton, Ohio.<ref>https://www.themilitant.com/2009/7335/733549.html</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 06:49, 30 March 2019
 Eugene Debs     (Fireman, grocer, trade unionist) | |
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| Born | Eugene Victor Debs 1855-11-05 Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | 1926-10-20 (Age 70) Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S. |
| Religion | Irreligious |
| Spouse | Kate Metzel |
| Party | Democratic, Social Democracy, Social Democratic, Socialist |
Eugene V. Debs
“Getting a living under capitalism... is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.”
Eugene Debs [1]
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Eugene V. Debs was sent to prison in 1919, charged with violating the Espionage Act for having made an antiwar speech in Canton, Ohio.[2]
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