basquebromance
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In 1920, Eugene Debs ran for President while in prison. But as a practical matter, someone in prison can’t campaign, do fundraisers, debates, or anything required to be viable. Trump won’t be viable in 2024 anyway.
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Eugene Debs: Poverty Is Capitalism’s Great Crime
Eugene Debs was famous for excoriating the barbarities of capitalism, including the right-wing notion of the “unworthy poor.” As Debs writes in the following 1915 article, republished here for the first time, every human deserves to be free from poverty.
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