course hero how i became a socialist

What was the charge against the anarchists?

This article first appeared in the April 1902 issue of The Comrade, a popular socialist monthly magazine then published in New York City. The anarchists Debs refers to in this article were the four labor leaders hanged November 11, 1887, by the State of Illinois. The charge against them was that their ideas had led to the bombing and death ...

What was the final shock of the American Railway Union?

Next followed the final shock — the Pullman strike — and the American Railway Union again won, clear and complete. The combined corporations were paralyzed and helpless. At this juncture there was delivered, from wholly unexpected quarters, a swift succession of blows that blinded me for an instant and then opened wide my eyes — and in the gleam of every bayonet and the flash of every rifle the class struggle was revealed. This was my first practical lesson in socialism, though wholly unaware that it was called by that name.

Did Harlan want to think of the matter overnight?

Mr. Harlan wanted to think of the matter overnight; and the next morning gravely informed us that he could not afford to be identified with the case, "for," said he, "you will be tried upon the same theory as were the anarchists, with probably the same result." That day, I remember, the jailer, by way of consolation, I suppose, showed us the bloodstained rope used at the last execution and explained in minutest detail, as he exhibited the gruesome relic, just how the monstrous crime of lawful murder is committed.