The Crack-Up: Eugene Debs & the Origins of Socialism in the U.S., with Maurice Isserman

Carnegie Council Podcasts

English - July 08, 2019 19:12 - 38 minutes - 35 MB - ★★★★ - 57 ratings
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Hamilton College's Maurice Isserman and historian Ted Widmer discuss American socialism in the early 1900s and the influence of Eugene Debs, a politician and trade unionist who received nearly a million votes for president in 1912. How did this movement influence Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement? What's the difference between Debs and Democratic Socialists like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?