Debs on Violating the Sedition Act Themes

If you're a committed Socialist, as Debs was, society and class mean everything This is the lens through which Socialists view the whole world. As a Socialist, Debs believed that society was rigged...

If you've picked up one thing from "Statement to the Court," it's that Debs is super critical of greedy rich people. On the flip side of the wealth coin, Debs portrays the poor as possessing a kind...

Eugene Debs was a ripe old sixty-three years old when he was sentenced to ten years in prison for his Canton, Ohio, speech criticizing the war. In those days, sixty was not the new forty…it was m...