Socialism Is the Next Big Obstacle

In 1900, Debs ran as a socialist for president. He was the unifying figure around which different wings and sections of the party could actually rally. What made him especially potent was the fact that he transcribed that socialist tradition into an American grain. The emerging industrial corporate system is robbing people of their democratic birthright; this is the next big obstacle. socialism is going to speak to that. Not as a radical idea from Europe, but rather this is the homegrown, natural next step for the evolution of American democracy.