это награда, присуждаемая Юджином В. Фонд Дебса, в Терре-Хот, штат Индиана, ежегодно с 1965 года чествует человека, чья работа соответствует д.
Юджин Дебс, «Мы пришли освобождать рабочий класс»
Владелец сайта предпочёл скрыть описание страницы. A graphic biography about Eugene V. Debs, folk hero and presidential candidate, reminds us of a time when support for socialism was strong in places like Kansas, Oklahoma, and Ohio. Trade unionist Eugene V. Debs was a major organizer of the American Railway Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The standard biography of Eugene Debs is Nick Salvatore’s Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1982). In 1916, with World War I raging, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs wrote a short piece condemning the nationalism that had thrown soldiers into trench warfare and machine-gun slaughter. Labor leader, socialist, and five-time presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) had a twofold relationship with the First Amendment.
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February 4, 1926 aged 70 Elmhurst, Illinois, U. Debs ran as the presidential candidate of the Socialist Labor Party in the 1900 , 1904 , 1908 , 1912 United States elections.
The Debs Commune , where the capitol of the United Republics is located, is named in his honor. His father came from a prosperous family and owned a textile mill and meat market. He left home at 14 to work on the railroad and soon became involved in union activity.
He joined the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1875, where he soon became prominent figure. In 1884, elected as a Democrat , he served a term in the Indiana General Assembly. Work with organized labor During its earlier years, the BLF was a relatively moderate and conservative organization, advocating for class collaboration and focusing primarily on providing mutual benefits and service for workers.
The working class have never yet had a voice in declaring war. If war is right, let it be declared by the people — you, who have your lives to lose. For this speech he was arrested and convicted in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio under the war-time espionage law.
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За эту речь и другие антивоенные выступления 30 июня Дебс был арестован и отправлен в тюрьму. Он был обвинён по 10 пунктам в деятельности, направленной на свержение правительства и законного порядка. Хотя Юджин указывал на свободу слова, гарантированную Первой поправкой к Конституции США, Верховный суд приговорил его к 10 годам заключения и лишению гражданства. Марк зачитал эту речь в рамках проекта «Голоса народной истории Соединённых Штатов» в церкви Всех Святых в Пасадене, Калифорния, 1 февраля 2007 года. Сэм Джонсон однажды сказал: «патриотизм — последнее прибежище негодяя».
Он, должно быть, имел в виду этих дворян с Уолл-стрит или, по крайней мере, их прототипов, ибо во все времена именно тиран, угнетатель и эксплуататор облачался в мантию патриотизма, религии, или того и другого, чтобы обманывать и запугивать людей. Каждый из этих аристократических заговорщиков и потенциальных убийц претендует на звание архипатриота; каждый из них настаивает, что война ведется за то, чтобы сделать мир безопасным для демократии.
Author: Eugene Debs
Юджин Ви́ктор (Джин) Дебс — деятель рабочего и левого движения США, один из организаторов (1900—1901 годах) Социалистической партии Америки, а также (в 1905 году). A graphic biography about Eugene V. Debs, folk hero and presidential candidate, reminds us of a time when support for socialism was strong in places like Kansas, Oklahoma, and Ohio. According to "Eugene V. Debs: an American paradox," Debs soon split with the IWW "in protest against its policies regarding the use of sabotage and ”direct action.'". Текст научной работы на тему «История злоключений Юджина Дебса или как американское правительство боролось с «Пятой колонной» в годы первой мировой войны». The socialist party member, Eugene Debs ran for the US presidential elections five times from 1900 to 1920.
June 16, 1918: Eugene V. Debs Speech Against WWI
Eugene Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on November 5, 1855, to the family of French immigrants from Alsace, Jean Daniel and Marguerite Mari Bettrich Debs. He could follow the playbook of the socialist firebrand Eugene V. Debs, who in 1920 received nearly a million votes while behind bars. Eugene Debs was a presidential candidate ran for election from prison.
OPINION: A day with Eugene Debs
Debs traveled across the Northeast to speak to his base of frustrated workers looking for a unifying voice against war. On April 6, 1917, the United States officially declared war against Germany. Debs knew the risks he was taking with his anti-war crusade, but he continued throughout the Midwest, culminating in a speech at a Socialist Party gathering in Canton, Ohio, on June 16, 1918. For two hours, the impassioned orator made his case, criticizing everything from the war to the Sedition Act to the military draft. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose—especially their lives. The jury found him guilty on three counts of violating the Espionage and Sedition acts. On September 18, 1918, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. While he was accustomed to campaigning by train and speaking in front of thousands, in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Debs was allowed [ PDF ] to give one political statement every week, which was then handed over to news wires. Amazingly, Debs still captured 3.
Harding or his opponent, James M.
Дебс опубликовал статью «Душа русской революции». Дебс произносит свою знаменитую антивоенную речь в г. Кантоне, штат Огайо, на съезде социалистов. Вскоре последовал арест, а позже за эту и другие речи, за выступления, осуждающие американскую капиталистическую систему, за приветствия российским большевикам Федеральный суд в г. Кливленде, штат Огайо, осудил Ю. Дебса на 10 лет строгого тюремного заключения.
Атланта, штат Джорджия, выступает со статьями и корреспонденциями, осуждающими пальмеровские полицейские рейды, расправы с инакомыслящими. Дебс объсняет классовую суть двухпартийной буржуазной системы: республиканская и демократическая партии — это партии капиталистического класса, финансируемые и контролируемые капиталистами ради своих выгод. Дебса из тюрьмы, но он был лишен американского гражданства. Состоялась встреча Дебса с Гардингом в Белом доме.
Try working in different conditions and incentives. The labor theory of value is patent nonsense. Orwell exposed it despite his socialism. And I bet you never read Solzhenitsyn. I wrote every published public thing he ever wrote. So keep on talking!! Robert K Stock on said: Nothing fails as badly as prayer. If I deny that Unicorns exist and you say they do, then it is up to you to provide proof. It the same with the existence of a God. The burden of proof is on the the person claiming something exists. Beauty and art are completely subjective. What is beautiful to one may be ugly to another. You can deny gravity as you fall to the bottom of a cliff, but your opinion about gravity means nothing. I have science. I have friends. I have happiness. Logic and faith are indeed separate realms. Logic dwells in the realm of reality and faith dwells in the realm of fairy-tales. I do not believe any biographical information from you. I have repeatedly stated my position on the Soviet Union and its mistakes. Communism is the future. Capitalism will be swept away. There is no point in arguing with you. You will not convince me and I will not convince you. You are just a pseudonym that someone is hiding behind. Stock is a racist on April 4, 2023 at 2:54 am said: No wonder Stock is never invited to parties. He has to turn to evil organizations like Satan and communism. Stock is the hypocrite. He claimed to only vote for black candidates, yet refused to vote Jade Simmons for President even though she was on his ballot. Besides, voting solely by race is in fact racism. Rosenbaum, and known to you by her pen name Ayn Rand, was born in 1905. After the Soviet revolution she fled with her family to Yevpatoria in Crimea, under the control of White counterrevolutionaries. She finished high school there.
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Over 700 had been arrested.
The Pullman Co. Any advances made by an organized working class would be reversed once the capitalists regained absolute power, often by temporarily mollifying workers with a few reforms. Debs feared the rise of the monolithic corporate state.
Walter Rauschenbusch, a Christian theologian, Baptist minister and leader of the Social Gospel movement , thundered against capitalism. He equated the crucified Christ with the abolitionist John Brown. That wrong is also done to us, And they are slaves most base, Whose love of right is for themselves And not for all the race.
It was also a period beset with violence, including anarchist bombings and assassinations. An anarchist killed President William McKinley in 1901, unleashing a wave of state repression against social and radical movements. Striking workers engaged in periodic gun battles, especially in the coalfields of southern West Virginia, with heavily armed company goons, National Guard units, paramilitary groups such as the Coal and Iron Police , and the U.
Debs, although a sworn enemy of the capitalist elites, was adamantly opposed to violence and sabotage, arguing that these actions allowed the state to demonize the socialist movement and enabled the destructive efforts of agents provocateurs. The conflict with the capitalist class, Debs argued, was at its core about competing values. They would always seek to use the law as an instrument of oppression and increase profits through machines, a reduction in wages, a denial of benefits and union busting.
They would sacrifice anyone and anything—including democracy and the natural world—to achieve their goals. He knew that corporate power is countered only through organized and collective resistance by workers forced to fight a bitter class war. Debs turned to politics when he was released from jail in 1895.
Debs was a powerful orator and drew huge crowds across the country. In his speeches and writings he demanded an end to child labor and denounced Jim Crow and lynching. As a presidential campaigner he traveled from New York to California on a train, called the Red Special, speaking to tens of thousands.
He helped elect socialist mayors in some 70 cities, including Milwaukee, as well as numerous legislators and city council members. He propelled two socialists into Congress. In the elections of 1912 he received nearly a million votes, 6 percent of the electorate.
Eighteen thousand people went to see him in Philadelphia and 22,000 in New York City. He terrified the ruling elites, who began to institute tepid reforms to attempt to stanch the growing support for the socialists. Debs after the 1912 election was a marked man.
At first they were opposed by the people and denounced by the press. But it did not fail. Revolutions have a habit of succeeding when the time comes for them.
Eighteen thousand people went to see him in Philadelphia and 22,000 in New York City. He terrified the ruling elites, who began to institute tepid reforms to attempt to stanch the growing support for the socialists. Debs after the 1912 election was a marked man. At first they were opposed by the people and denounced by the press. But it did not fail.
Revolutions have a habit of succeeding when the time comes for them. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. I listened to all that was said in this court in support and justification of this prosecution, but my mind remains unchanged. I look upon the Espionage Law as a despotic enactment in flagrant conflict with democratic principles and with the spirit of free institutions. At fourteen I went to work in a railroad shop; at sixteen I was firing a freight engine on a railroad.
I remember all the hardships and privations of that earlier day, and from that time until now my heart has been with the working class. I could have been in Congress long ago. I have preferred to go to prison. I am thinking of the women who for a paltry wage are compelled to work out their barren lives; of the little children who in this system are robbed of their childhood and in their tender years are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon and forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the monster machines while they themselves are being starved and stunted, body and soul. I see them dwarfed and diseased and their little lives broken and blasted because in this high noon of Christian civilization money is still so much more important than the flesh and blood of childhood.
In very truth gold is god today and rules with pitiless sway in the affairs of men. In this country—the most favored beneath the bending skies—we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their labor to that machinery to produce in abundance for every man, woman, and child—and if there are still vast numbers of our people who are the victims of poverty and whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth to old age, until at last death comes to their rescue and lulls these hapless victims to dreamless sleep, it is not the fault of the Almighty: it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that ought to be abolished not only in the interest of the toiling masses but in the higher interest of all humanity. I believe, as all Socialists do, that all things that are jointly needed and used ought to be jointly owned—that industry, the basis of our social life, instead of being the private property of a few and operated for their enrichment, ought to be the common property of all, democratically administered in the interest of all. This order of things cannot always endure. I have registered my protest against it.
I recognize the feebleness of my effort, but, fortunately, I am not alone. There are multiplied thousands of others who, like myself, have come to realize that before we may truly enjoy the blessings of civilized life, we must reorganize society upon a mutual and cooperative basis; and to this end we have organized a great economic and political movement that spreads over the face of all the earth. There are today upwards of sixty millions of Socialists, loyal, devoted adherents to this cause, regardless of nationality, race, creed, color, or sex. They are all making common cause. They are spreading with tireless energy the propaganda of the new social order.
They are waiting, watching, and working hopefully through all the hours of the day and the night. They are still in a minority. But they have learned how to be patient and to bide their time.
Senator and Governor. Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What?
Scribner, 1998 , a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University.
Юджин Дебс, «Мы пришли освобождать рабочий класс»
Агитация Юджина Дебса и его кандидата в вице-президенты Эмиля Зайделя В 1904, 1908, 1912 и 1920 годы Юджин Дебс выдвигается кандидатом от Социалистической партии Америки для участия в избирательной кампании на пост президента США. В 1904 году за кандидата Дебса проголосовало всего около 20 тысяч избирателей. В 1908 году Дебс получил уже около 500 тысяч голосов. После 1921 года Дебс отходит от активной политики и сосредотачивается на агитационной деятельности в пользу социализма.
Вплоть до своей смерти, Дебс путешествует по Америке, устраивая лекции при поддержке своего брата Теодора Дебса. В течение своей жизни, Дебс часто нуждался в деньгах, для себя, организаций, основателем которых являлся, а также для поддержки партийных газет и журналов, редактором которых был он или его брат. На покрытие этих и других расходов у Дебса часто уходили все его сбережения.
В пору кризиса для покрытия долгов профсоюзных организаций Дебсу приходилось брать кредит на своё имя. Высказывания Дебса[ править править код ] «Пока существует низший класс — я к нему отношусь, пока есть преступники — я один из них, пока хоть одна душа томится в тюрьме — я не свободен». Хроника жизни Ю.
Дебса[ править править код ] Виктор Юджин Дебс 5 ноября 1855 года в г. Конец 1875 г. Терре-Хот по избирательному списку от демократов.
Забастовка длится 18 дней. Владельцы железной дороги удовлетворяют все требования бастующих рабочих. По приказу президента США Г.
Кливленда забастовка была подавлена федеральными войсками. Джирарде, штат Канзас. В 1908 и 1912 гг.
Лудлоу, штат Колорадо; призывает рабочих к сопротивлению.
I am thinking of the women who for a paltry wage are compelled to work out their barren lives; of the little children who in this system are robbed of their childhood and in their tender years are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon and forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the monster machines while they themselves are being starved and stunted, body and soul. I see them dwarfed and diseased and their little lives broken and blasted because in this high noon of Christian civilization money is still so much more important than the flesh and blood of childhood. In very truth gold is god today and rules with pitiless sway in the affairs of men. In this country—the most favored beneath the bending skies—we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their labor to that machinery to produce in abundance for every man, woman, and child—and if there are still vast numbers of our people who are the victims of poverty and whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth to old age, until at last death comes to their rescue and lulls these hapless victims to dreamless sleep, it is not the fault of the Almighty: it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that ought to be abolished not only in the interest of the toiling masses but in the higher interest of all humanity. I believe, as all Socialists do, that all things that are jointly needed and used ought to be jointly owned—that industry, the basis of our social life, instead of being the private property of a few and operated for their enrichment, ought to be the common property of all, democratically administered in the interest of all. This order of things cannot always endure.
I have registered my protest against it. I recognize the feebleness of my effort, but, fortunately, I am not alone. There are multiplied thousands of others who, like myself, have come to realize that before we may truly enjoy the blessings of civilized life, we must reorganize society upon a mutual and cooperative basis; and to this end we have organized a great economic and political movement that spreads over the face of all the earth. There are today upwards of sixty millions of Socialists, loyal, devoted adherents to this cause, regardless of nationality, race, creed, color, or sex. They are all making common cause. They are spreading with tireless energy the propaganda of the new social order. They are waiting, watching, and working hopefully through all the hours of the day and the night.
They are still in a minority. But they have learned how to be patient and to bide their time. The feel—they know, indeed—that the time is coming, in spite of all opposition, all persecution, when this emancipating gospel will spread among all the peoples, and when this minority will become the triumphant majority and, sweeping into power, inaugurate the greatest social and economic change in history. In that day we shall have the universal commonwealth—the harmonious cooperation of every nation with every other nation on earth. I realize that finally the right must prevail. I never so clearly comprehended as now the great struggle between the powers of greed and exploitation on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of industrial freedom and social justice. I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity.
The people are awakening. In due time they will and must come to their own. When the mariner, sailing over tropic seas, looks for relief from his weary watch, he turns his eyes toward the southern cross, burning luridly above the tempest-vexed ocean. As the midnight approaches, the southern cross begins to bend, the whirling worlds change their places, and with starry finger-points the Almighty marks the passage of time upon the dial of the universe, and though no bell may beat the glad tidings, the lookout knows that the midnight is passing and that relief and rest are close at hand. Let the people everywhere take heart of hope, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning. His citizenship was not restored until five decades after his 1926 death. The labor movement and socialist party he had struggled to build had been ruthlessly crushed, often through violent attacks orchestrated by the state and corporations and mass arrests and deportations carried out during the Palmer Raids in November 1919 and January 1920.
The government had shut down socialist publications, such as Appeal to Reason and The Masses.
As the strike spread and the injunction failed to halt the strikers, Pullman and other railroad owners called on President Grover Cleveland for support. The President sent in Regular Army troops to quell the violence and subdue the strikers. Convicted of violating the injunction, Debs was sentenced to six months in jail. While serving his prison term, Debs reexamined his political philosophy and declared himself a socialist.
By the time Debs was released from prison in November 1895, he had become a nationally recognized celebrity and political force. The socio-political beliefs that had attracted Debs and the other members to establish the defunct ARU now gathered to form the new Socialist Party with Eugene Debs as its head. Now a Celebrity, Debs Seeks Presidency Even while Debs immersed himself in socialist politics, he still sought the formation of a labor union that encompassed his goals of inclusivity for all workers. They saw American involvement as a class struggle wherein workers were to be sacrificed for corporate benefit and greed.
Now a Celebrity, Debs Seeks Presidency Even while Debs immersed himself in socialist politics, he still sought the formation of a labor union that encompassed his goals of inclusivity for all workers. They saw American involvement as a class struggle wherein workers were to be sacrificed for corporate benefit and greed. As the United States moved onto a war footing, socialists like Debs enthusiastically voiced their opposition at speaking engagements and through the press. Their audience, however, grew smaller, and public opinion to a large degree turned against the socialists. This wide-ranging act, still in existence today, made it a federal crime to interfere with, among other things, the Selective Service Act or military draft. With the act, federal judicial agencies wielded greater power to interpret violations of the law and indict its opponents.
Debs Gives Speech Extolling Socialism.
«Формат с двумя картами ведёт к ничьим» — Ceb о групповой стадии ESL One Birmingham 2024
Юджин Ви́ктор (Джин) Дебс — деятель рабочего и левого движения США, один из организаторов (1900—1901 годах) Социалистической партии Америки, а также (в 1905 году). Their leader Eugene Debs, who actually ran for President more often than Joe Biden, summed up his view of the world in saying. Оффлейнер Team Spirit Магомед 'Collapse' Халилов и саппорт OG Себастьян 'Ceb' Феликс Альбер Дебс в интервью на ESL One Birmingham 2024 поделились мнениями. Although it is well-known that Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party nominee, ran for president while imprisoned in 1920, this Seattle Times story provides many interesting details.
OPINION: A day with Eugene Debs
ДЕБС (Debs) Юджин (5.11.1855, Терре-Хот, штат Индиана – 20.10.1926, Элмхерст, штат Иллинойс), амер. политич. деятель. Из бедной семьи франц. эмигрантов. I'm not sure whether Donald Trump has ever heard of Eugene Debs, the austerely incorruptible early leader of America's Socialist Party. This day in 1919, Socialist leader Eugene V Debs is sent to prison for violating the Espionage Act in his opposition to WWI. Информация Новости Контакт Род занятий. TikTok for Good Реклама Developers Прозрачность TikTok Rewards TikTok Embeds.
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В течение трёх недель Дебс послал 9 тысяч телеграмм и посыльных с поручениями [5]. Когда буржуазное руководство страны, попирая элементарные конституционные свободы, решило применить войска для подавления стачки, Юджин Дебс выступил против этого решения, поскольку, по его мнению, агрессия со стороны правительства могла привести к вооружённому восстанию. В то же время пресса критиковала стачечников, называла Дебса диктатором, преследующим личную выгоду [6]. До суда его освободили под залог. В это время он выступает на митингах, призывая рабочих вести последовательную борьбу против капиталистов. Первую треть своей жизни Юджин Дебс посвятил созданию и расширению профсоюзного движения. Стремился к объединению многочисленных рабочих профсоюзов в один сильный глобальный профсоюз. Но его замыслам было не суждено сбыться. После провала « Пульмановской забастовки » — самой массовой забастовки того времени, Дебса заключают в тюрьму на шесть месяцев. На суде его защищал известный адвокат Кларенс Дэрроу , уйдя с должности корпоративного юриста на Северо-западной железной дороге, чтобы солидаризироваться с делом Юджина Дебса. Дэрроу а также один из лидеров американских социал-демократов Виктор Бергер и побудил Дебса ознакомиться с социалистическим учением.
Именно в тюрьме, читая труды социалистов в частности, Эдварда Беллами , Роберта Блэтчфорда , Карла Каутского и Карла Маркса , Дебс начинает приходить к мысли, что сам по себе профсоюз, не имеющий политической поддержки, не может эффективно помочь рабочим в их борьбе за улучшение условий труда. Являясь одним из организаторов-учредителей вначале Социал-демократической, а потом Социалистической партии США, Дебс много путешествует по стране с целью проведения лекций на темы социализма. Агитация Юджина Дебса и его кандидата в вице-президенты Эмиля Зайделя В 1904, 1908, 1912 и 1920 годы Юджин Дебс выдвигается кандидатом от Социалистической партии Америки для участия в избирательной кампании на пост президента США. В 1904 году за кандидата Дебса проголосовало всего около 20 тысяч избирателей. В 1908 году Дебс получил уже около 500 тысяч голосов. После 1921 года Дебс отходит от активной политики и сосредотачивается на агитационной деятельности в пользу социализма. Вплоть до своей смерти, Дебс путешествует по Америке, устраивая лекции при поддержке своего брата Теодора Дебса. В течение своей жизни, Дебс часто нуждался в деньгах, для себя, организаций, основателем которых являлся, а также для поддержки партийных газет и журналов, редактором которых был он или его брат. На покрытие этих и других расходов у Дебса часто уходили все его сбережения.
Они продолжали подбадривать его, пока он шел, а он продолжал махать, пока не достиг ворот». Затем Дебс отправился на железнодорожную станцию, чтобы ехать в свой дом в городе Терре-Хот, штат Индиана. Прибыв на вокзал, он отказался от роскошного пульмановского вагона, заняв вместо этого более скромное место. Разницу в стоимости проезда он пожертвовал в фонд помощи голодающим в Советской России. На станции он сделал заявление прессе по поводу заключенных в тюрьме сторонников: «Я оставил там 2300 человек, и все они должны быть освобождены».
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He has to turn to evil organizations like Satan and communism. Stock is the hypocrite. He claimed to only vote for black candidates, yet refused to vote Jade Simmons for President even though she was on his ballot. Besides, voting solely by race is in fact racism. Rosenbaum, and known to you by her pen name Ayn Rand, was born in 1905. After the Soviet revolution she fled with her family to Yevpatoria in Crimea, under the control of White counterrevolutionaries. She finished high school there. By free education, did you mean college, or seizing her parents business, nearly starving her and her family to death, expelling her from college because she was from a bourgeois background, allowing her to reenroll after complaints from visiting foreign scientists….? Sure, that was quite an education, but I would scarcely call it free. I am real. That is an objective fact. Whether you exist is a matter of opinion. Or is it the other way around? Try logically disproving solipsism or the matrix. Good luck! Your failure to answer followup questions digging into your claims is the most notable fact so far. Your ideas fail when really examined. I have read more than one biography of Rand. The events you list did not necessarily happen in the way you describe. Workers taking businesses from the bourgeoisie is the right thing to do. It is my hope that American workers rise up and seize the businesses of the bosses and that the government seizes the bank accounts of those bosses. Ayn Rand called that looting. I am in favor of such looting. Robert K Stock on April 4, 2023 at 3:25 am said: I am not writing a book. I am not writing a dissertation. I am not giving a public address. If I were then I would need to provide sources. What we are doing is having a conversation as if we are at a kitchen table drinking coffee. Follow up questions? Cite sources? Hell no! I think you are one of the many pseudonyms used on this site. MaxZim V Zaslon on April 4, 2023 at 3:37 am said: Bubs, if you think you have no faith, why is it that you have so much faith that I am some boogeyman of yours?