“Ignorance alone stands in the way of socialist success.”

— Eugene V. Debs

The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
Context: Ignorance alone stands in the way of socialist success. The capitalist parties understand this and use their resources to prevent the workers from seeing the light.
Intellectual darkness is essential to industrial slavery.

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American labor and political leader 1855–1926

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