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American Socialist (2020)

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The Democracy of the Working Class

Debs: I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophat an coward in the streets. Thousands of socialists were tracked and arrested. Their newspapers were ransacked and shut down. Debs argues that the war itself is a war of competing capitalists organization everywhere, they are moving toward democracy. And the dawn marching toward the sunrise, their faces all aglow with the light of the coming day.

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