People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Social movements and organizing 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any France state institutions 7 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 7 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 5 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 3 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 3 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 3 French Workers' Party (POF) 2 Democratic Party (United States) 1

All 20 affiliations

Austria

Austria state institutions 1

Belgium

Belgium state institutions 1

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 1

France

France state institutions 7 French Workers' Party (POF) 2 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 3

Germany

Germany state institutions 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 7 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 3

International organizations

International Workingmen's Association (First International) 5 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 2

Italy

Italy state institutions 1

Mongolia

Mongolia state institutions 1

Russia

Mensheviks (RSDLP) 3 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4

United Kingdom

Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1 Democratic Party (United States) 1 Socialist Party of America 2
Position
Any Non-Bolshevik socialists 1
Citizenship
Any United States 1
Background
Any United States 1
Era(set)
Any

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 4 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 15
Democratic Party (United States) The age of the Internationals and empires 1820–1917 Clear all
GlossaryDemocratic Party (United States)

Eugene V. Debs

Eugene V. Debs
Socialist Party of America Non-Bolshevik socialists United States United States 1855–1926 ○ Heart failure

Five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and pioneer of industrial railroad unionism

At his 1918 sentencing he declared: "While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."

The most iconic figure of American socialism and a pioneer of industrial unionism. After leading the American Railway Union through the Pullman Strike of 1894, he embraced Marxism in prison and helped found the Socialist Party of America (1901) and the IWW (1905). He ran for president five times, winning 6.0% in 1912, and from an Atlanta prison cell in 1920 he won over 914,000 votes, the high-water mark of American socialist electoral politics.

Career timeline
  • 1875Joined Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
  • 1880–1893BLF Grand Secretary-Treasurer & magazine editor
  • 1885Indiana State Representative (Democrat)
  • 1893–1897Founder & president, American Railway Union
  • 1901Co-founder, Socialist Party of America
  • 1905Founding member, Industrial Workers of the World
  • 1900–1920Socialist Party presidential candidate (5 campaigns)
  • 1919–1921Imprisoned, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary