--ialism said eugene debs capitalism said debs was wrong. the inequality is simply wrong. there is a christian underlying morality behind the scientific analysis. 1890's the main expression of socialism in the u.s. was the tiny socialist labour party headed by daniel deleon. deleon was a very strange and difficult guy. he was the first to think in the united states of the modern problems of radicalism. the rise of mass culture. what does that mean for alternative? you are already getting mass newspapers and magazines. what should radicals do in a society where a certain dominant culture -- this goes back to goodwin -- as permeating society? wasaid the way to do that forming an uncompromisingly radical party of workers. a political party which would work with radical unions to mobilize workers, to get them to think in a radical way. idea, but he concluded the entire labor movement was basically an obstacle to this. particularly the american federation of labor which he said was dominated by what he called "labor fakers" and the immediate role of socialists was to destroy th

one foot in each camp, and the only leader around whom the socialists could unite nationally was eugene debs, the greatest of all the socialist leaders. here is debs addressing a very large crowd. he is way on the left. in chicago, chicago, yeah. i am not sure what part. debs speaking to a large crowd. debs was a symbol of both the class consciousness and the idealism of socialism. he came out of the american railroad union, which had suffered the great defeat in 1894 of its national strike because of the use of federal troops in the junctions. the two leaning labor figures of the 1890's went their separate ways. they both confronted devastating defeats in the 1890's. gompers buyer the alga mated association, and homestead, the crushing of the craft union. debs with the defeat of the american railroad union. they drew 2 different conclusions. gompers drew the conclusion you have to make a deal. you have to work within the system. debs went towards socialism. he became a socialist because the only way to confront the power the corporation was to use political power against them. the only coun

we got to the eugene deb's case, four different cases in short order.ourth one in abrams, that holmes started to express real doubts about how far the government was going, and whether it was kind of running wild with this notion of clear and present danger. >> it was a nine zero decision against shanked and for the united states government. therefore basic questions the court was asked to decide. first, should charles schenck's conviction be overturned? so the answer was, are his political statements protected by his statements? >> they are protected by his expression but not by the constitution. >> are there different standards for freedom of speech -- >> during peacetime and where? >> homes actually says this, it's significant and it relates to his own personal experiences a soldier in the civil war. finally >>, is the espionage act constitutional? >> it. whereas the justices say, given it was a clear and present danger, that it caused a risk of undermining the war effort, that it was constitutional to put him in jail for. it >> if you're going to ea

eugene debs said that he knew that he was no better than the meanest among us right when he was sentenced to federal prison for being against world war one when i wrote those writers of baghdad my 1st book i thought long and hard not to have the marshall humvees on the cover the picture that's on the back is the one that i wanted on the front because i thought it best describes my book and it's a girl blowing a bubble in iraq a girl while a fully our soldier is standing on the corner to me what changed my view was seeing myself in that iraqi girl and thousands of others. who do great work danny thank you very much that was danny surgeon. book patriotic. seemed wrong why don't we all just all. get to shape out just to become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. time after time called parisian to repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to excel or it transitions to sustainable transport sustainability explainable or man not be more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is c

eugene debs said that he knew that he was no better than the meanest among us right when he was sentenced to federal prison for being against world war one when i wrote those writers of baghdad my 1st book i thought long and hard not to have the marshall humvees on the cover the picture that's on the back is the one that i wanted on the front because i thought it best describes my book and it's a girl blowing a bubble iraqi girl while a fully our soldier is standing on the corner to me what changed my view was seeing myself in that iraqi girl and thousands of others. who do great work danny thank you very much that was danny surgeon. book patriotic. we go to work. straight home. to rest in charging. the jury and. trying to be in the specific indictments kind of the defense can be expected is a deal in the cards and will justice be served. live from the world headquarters of r t america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez there at higher get everybody i'm rick sanchez and i want to welcome all of you who are watching us around the world on your regular t.v. providers

eugene debs said that he knew that he was no better than the meanest among us right when he was sentenced to federal prison for being against world war one when i wrote those writers of baghdad my 1st book i fought long and hard not to have the marshall humvees on the cover the picture that's on the back is the one that i wanted on the front because i thought it best describes my book and it's a girl blowing a bubble in iraq a girl while a fully our soldier standing on the corner to me what changed my view was seeing myself and that iraqi girl and thousands of others. who do great work danny thank you very much that was danny certain. book patriotic. some rumors assumed. search is going to be memphis mccomb the new movie. number you. remember the justin stuff ever uploaded to get in your show that oh. i'm talking cat is a very international look at a community. meeting yesterday the trick we're going to play. with this is a good idea to keep it as the study says you do indeed. there's a push for them at the world food you still look at the brazil so there are new calls for cooperation in

city and milwaukee and discusses multiple presidential campaigns of the socialist party candidate eugene debsis columbia university and we started with the american revolution and have been going through the abolitionist movement, early

including jimmy hoffa, eugene debs. and now with roger stone, president trump has to take on whatever political heat he gets because that's exactly how the framers designed the pardon power. in fact, political backlash is about the only check on the pardon hour. >> i wonder, as someone who is not a legal expert, help us walk lieu the decision on commutation versus actually pardoning stone. >> exactly. a pardon is a forgiveness of the crime. but a commutation really only ends or limits a then-existing sentence. so the person is still guilty of the crime. it's just their sentence is cut short. it's much better of course to get a pardon because that erases for the most part -- there are still some lingering records of your conviction, but it's better to get a pardon. but most prisoners would take a commutation if they get it. strangely, of the statistically commutations are less common than pardons. >> josh this all happens against the backdrop of a raging pandemic. the death toll stands at 135,000 across the country. five

socialist movements in new york city and milwaukee and discusses the presidential campaigns of eugene debs. >> this is a class called the american radical tradition. we started with the american revolution and have been going through the abolitionist

he was similarly affected by the rumblings of the mob in 1894 when eugene debs led the american railway union on its historic strike against the pullman car company. warren's father was a railroad man who worked for the southern district and struck with the union. one night, the members of the union gathered in an angry growl outside of union station, the main strain station in los angeles. they hung a man in effigy, and warren watched a little boy wide-eyed in terror, the experience he recalled decades later, gave me a horror of mob action, which has remained with me to this day. as a young boy, warren moved to bakersfield, which was his home for the rest of his youth. bakersfield at the turn of the century is not quite the ok corral, but it was not so different, either. it was a distinctly western town of a california variety. it was a railroad depot for the southern pacific. warren's father had been blacklisted from working for the southern pacific in los angeles after the strike, but they were so desperate for works in the interior of california they accepted him in bakersfield. bak

party in new york city and milwaukee and looks at the socialist party presidential campaigns of eugene debs. at 9:15 p.m. eastern, 6:15 p.m. pacific, an oral history interview with harold christiansen recorded in 2015 by the korean war legacy foundation. at 10:00 p.m. eastern, 7:00 p.m. pacific, the third part of the american revolution of 1963 on the civil rights movement. prof. foner: this is called the american radical tradition. we started with the american revolution and have been going through the abolitionist movement, early feminism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement -- now we are entering into the 20th century. in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of a lot of labor unrest, industrial workers of the world, the women's suffrage movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things.

at the time the party's leader as for many years was eugene debs, a noble man, charismatic, much beloved, five times candidate for president, he had begun life as a railway worker and became head of the railway workers union and when he campaigned for president in 1908 he traveled around the country in a special train called the red special that flew red flags and was draped with red bunting and engineers passing locomotives on the next track always recognized him and gave long to on their horns when they saw the red special going by. graham stokes in new york was on the platform with him because graham was running as a socialist candidate for the new york state legislature from the lower east side and rose went out and campaigned for both of them. neither graham nor eugene won there elections but people remained fascinated by this couple. >> watch the rest of this program visit our website, booktv.org and use the search box at the top of the page to search for the title of his book, rebels the relevant. >> booktv has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. coming up this weekend