“Capitalism is dying and its extremities are already decomposing. The blotches upon the surface show that the blood no longer circulates. The time is near when the cadaver will have to be removed and the atmosphere purified.”

—  Eugene V. Debs

The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)

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American labor and political leader 1855–1926

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