“As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and that the many small ones, like the fewer large ones, are all politically supporting their class interests, and this is always and everywhere the capitalist class.” RememberInterestClassRepublicanDemocratFewerCapitalist Author:Eugene V. Debs
“I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.” IfsWantBusinessLandIf I CouldWildernessWhere You AreCapitalistMosesFollow MePromised Land Author:Eugene V. Debs
“We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.” WantEconomyProduceWorkersCapitalistGlobal Economy Author:Eugene V. Debs
“Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations in this struggle. I was made to see that in craft unionism the capitalist class have it within their power to keep the workers divided, to use one part of them to conquer and crush another part of them. Indeed, I was made to see that the old form of unionism separates the workers and keeps them helpless at the mercy of their masters.” LongMadeUseFormRealizingDealsClassStruggleMastersMercyTradeUnionsWorkersCraftsConquerCorporationsCrushDividedCapitalistLong AgoHelplessIncompetentTrade UnionsUnionism Author:Eugene V. Debs
“I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the irregular army of the people. I refuse to obey any command to fight from the ruling class, but I will not wait to be commanded to fight for the working class. I am opposed to every war but one; I am for that war with heart and soul, and that is the world-wide war of social revolution. In that war I am prepared to fight in any way the ruling class may make necessary, even to the barricades.” PeopleWorldWayHeartMayWarSoulFightingSocialWaitingClassRevolutionArmyPreparedSoldierRefuseWideCommandCapitalistWorking ClassRulingHeart And SoulSocial RevolutionPlutocracyBarricades Author:Eugene V. Debs
“The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.” PoliticalDifferencesPartyClassPrinciplesStruggleRepublicanWingsDemocraticAriseRelateCapitalistSpoilDemocratic PartyClass Struggle Author:Eugene V. Debs
