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Marxism and the Socialist Party in the United States
In 1917, a group of Marxists seized power in the Paris Commune. The French army regrouped and took over; they deported many communeards to Pacific islands. Lenin was an exile because he argued that Russian workers should not be killing German workers during World War I. Eugene Victor Debs ran for U.S. president from jail as part of Socialist Party at this time.