As American socialists advance, it’s worth looking back at the life of one of the US’s great critics of plutocracy, Eugene Debs: “A man who clambered into capitalism’s boiler room, gazed at its machinery, and announced it was despotic to the core.”

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in reply to Jacobin
@Jacobin It's funny people criticize capitalism but they've got nothing to offer as an alternative except that which historically has been a disaster, socialism. Socialism lacks any automatic feedback with respect to supply and demand, lacks any incentive for humans to be productive, and this never worked in the past, and it sure as hell won't work with gen-Z.

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