Eugene V. Debs Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society - we are on the eve of universal change.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Civilization, Issues, Long

  Eugene V. Debs' open letter to the American Railway Union, as quoted in "Chicago Railway Times", January 1, 1897.

• Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Criminals, Needs, Prison

• Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Struggle, Class, Tears

  "The American Movement" by Eugene V. Debs (1898), first published in "DEBS: His Life Writings and Speeches" in The Appeal to Reason Newspaper (pp. 95-117), www.marxists.org. 1908.

• Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Cities, Chicago, Modern

  "What's the Matter with Chicago?" by Eugene V. Debs in "Chicago Socialist", www.marxists.org. October 25, 1902.

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