Debs’s story is the story of labor battles in industrializing America, of a socialist politics grown directly out of the American Midwest heartland, and of a distinctly American vision of socialism. With the campaign of Bernie Sanders, the rise of mass movements like Occupy and Black Lives Matter, and the Wall Street Crash of 2008, socialism has once again made itself felt in American politics. This graphic biography, published in collaboration with the Democratic Socialists of America–whose growing membership, spurred by Trump’s election and Bernie Sanders’ campaign, has reached heights not seen among socialist parties since the 1920s–is geared toward a new generation exploring socialist and working-class radicalism in the past and the present.
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