Abstract

The Socialist Party, founded in 1901, was a wondrous stew of radical democrats, neo-abolitionists, Marxists, social gospel Christians, populists, feminists, trade unionists, industrial unionists, Single Taxers, social democrats, anarcho-syndicalists, and Fabians. Its leader, Eugene Debs, was eloquent, radical, courageous, very emotional, charismatic, sentimental, and inimitable, with a large and needy ego, enthralling teeming crowds year after year, espousing a magical idea of socialist deliverance: socialism is the only answer to every social problem.

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