Read the Bending Cross

you cannot understand radical politics from the safety of theory and abstraction

Today is Eugene Debs’s birthday. I try never to have political heroes, but it’s hard not to feel that way about Debs. He was the kind of character that would be almost impossible to find now, a self-taught socialist who developed radical politics not in a humanities seminar or online but in the sweaty confines of the railroads and the labor movement the…