The End of the Socialist Party

After the 19 17 bolshevik revolution in russia, a class based uprising that ushered in a global wave of socialist thinking. Socialism was re framed as something foreign and dangerous. This is our first major red scare, e, red scare te demonization of socialism than occurs. By 19 20, debbs watched from prison as free speech became the issue of the day,. An amnesty movement was beginning to take shape. The roots of the a c l u were forming. For many eugene debbs was the symbol of democracy under threat.