tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post1377313359989900282..comments2024-03-22T19:52:46.571+00:00Comments on SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK: Eugene Debs on Immigrants Poetry Coalshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514953133244910986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-24952070540923922002017-02-13T02:34:14.196+00:002017-02-13T02:34:14.196+00:00William, i am a great admirer of Debs and i'm ...William, i am a great admirer of Debs and i'm aware of your citation and it should have been included.<br /><br />https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1904/negronemesis.htm<br /><br />https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1903/negro.htm<br /><br />The point of the post was to highlight that people can change their prejudices by experience as did Debs as his political ideas matured. I don't think you dispute the veracity of the questionable views of Debs that were quoted which were pre-1903 and it is my bad writing that makes it seem it was as late as 1910 that his ideas became less clouded by racism. <br /><br />He struggled hard against elements in the SPA and trade union movement that were anti-immigration. The Socialist Party of Canada also had an internal disagreement on the issue of immigrants. <br /><br />Again the point is being made by some present-day leftists that there is a case for immigration controls and this is a position the blog opposes. <br /><br />That someone such as Debs who at one time expressed anti-foreigner sentiments could later reject such politics is the example those misguided left-wingers should adopt.<br /><br />Thanks for drawing attention to the blog's badly worded implication that it was only 1910 that Debs took up the anti-racism battle ajohnstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-75590382826755181652017-02-13T02:00:27.782+00:002017-02-13T02:00:27.782+00:00The claim is made that Debs is fairly racist and a...The claim is made that Debs is fairly racist and anti-immigrant until 1910, but as early as 1903 Debs takes a vehement stand against racism, even replying to an anonymous letter in the Internationa Socialist Review ending with, "For myself, I want no advantage over my fellow man and if he is weaker than I, all the more is it my duty to help him.<br />Nor shall my door or my heart be ever closed against any human being on account of the color of his skin."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11994451043193224822noreply@blogger.com