EUGENE VICTOR DEBS (1855-1926) was one of the greatest and most articulate advocates of workers’ power to have ever lived. During the early years of the labor movement in the United States, Debs was far ahead of his times, leading the formation of the American Railway Union (ARU) and the American Socialist Party.
Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on November 5, 1855. He left home at 14 to work on the railroad and soon became interested in union activity. As president of the American Railway Union, he led a successful strike against the Great Northern Railroad in 1894. Two months later he was jailed for his role in a strike against the Chicago Pullman Palace Car Company. While in jail, Socialist and future Congressman Victor Berger talked with Debs and introduced him to the ideas of Marx and socialism. When he was released from prison, he announced that he was a Socialist.
He soon formed the Social Democratic Party, which eventually became the Socialist Party in 1901. He became their perennial presidential candidate. He ran on the Socialist ticket in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920 when he received his highest popular vote—about 915,000 (3.4%)—from within a prison cell. He had been arrested once again, this time for “sedition”; because he opposed World War I. Many Socialists were imprisoned during this time because they felt that the war was being fought for the profits of the rich, but with the blood of the poor. Debs was fortunately released in 1921.
Debs died in Elmhurst, Illinois, on October 20, 1926, but he is remembered to this day by countless labor activists from all over the political spectrum. The Eugene V. Debs Foundation works to continue his legacy into the 21st century...
To learn more about Debs and his life, read Stephen Marion Reynolds’ Biography of Eugene V. Debs for a full accounting of his life and times.
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Thats right its another "twitter food takes made me mad."
This time it was the usual like, "barbaric nordic cuisine" but in particular this time it was about the norwegian whole sheeps head dish. And idk about what everyone else hears but thats literally like what I hear when racist people start shouting about when it comes to "middle eastern"(actually more like central asian) cuisine. Oh they all make you eat goat heads if you come over for dinner, that type of shit.
Like simmer down ok, there's very few kinds of slop and gross bits of animals that cannot be found in two separate places on the globe if you start looking, sooner or later you'll find someone who isnt a disgusting norse but who also manages to eat that same slop.
Someone on twitter posted a take like "the vile norwegian feasts on rotten fish and boiled sheeps head" and the latter is like literally a national dish of Khazakhstan too.
And I am expressing my eternal annoyance that people try to own northern european and anglo cuisine by pretending that they are above slop and filthy animal bits when basically every cuisine devours slop and animal offal. We're all the same basic breed of filthy hogs.
sheep's head is probably cheap and thus looked down upon much like offal? Idk, makes good soup
The face bits are apparently some of the softest and most tender bits, which I guess is why they make "head cheese" out of it, just usually isnt served still attached to the head.
The fact that people find the idea of eating an identifiable animal gross makes me optimistic about mass adoption of vegnaism in the future.
It is very arbitrary CW: discussion of animal products
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I've always been fascinated by how different groups of Americans decide what animal parts are acceptable to eat. White people super-markets rarely carry much in the way of organ meats. Like maybe livers. You'll almost never find feet or ears. Good luck ever finding lungs or brains. Mexican groceries will usually have beef tongue/lengua and a few other things, and Asian and North African groceries often have other options but you really only have those options in major cities and the odd town that has a large ethnic minority or immigrant population. There's definitely race and class aspects. In my observation the further north and/or west you go the more restricted the palate gets for organ meats, with a lot of wipipo considering them low class and associating organ meets with southerners (pejorative) and especially black and other minority people. idk, it's fucking weird.