Book Review: ‘American Socialist,’ by Shawn Gude (Gift Article)

Debs ran for president not to win. He ran to awaken Americans to their common predicament as workers and to get them to go do something about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/b...

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“If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are,” but if you use “your heads” you’ll “get yourself out of your present condition.” The Socialist Who Ran for the White House www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/b...

'Debs lost his job in the “Long Depression” (...) Hopping freights, he eventually returned home to work at a family friend’s business. Yet out of this harrowing ordeal came a hard-earned lesson: that until workers banded together, they’d remain subject to the whims and wants of their employers.'

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/b... David Marcus David Marcus is the literary editor of The Nation

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