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Birth of socialism according to Debs, Heath
==Legacy and ideas==
==Legacy and ideas==
Debs is best known for tireless campaigning and passionate oratory that made audiences feel guilty for not being more radical; he did not originate any new ideas or policies. Debs believed capitalism, with all its works, was evil, and Socialism, with all its promises, a true panacea.
Debs is best known for tireless campaigning and passionate oratory that made audiences feel guilty for not being more radical; he did not originate any new ideas or policies. Debs believed capitalism, with all its works, was evil, and Socialism, with all its promises, a true panacea.
==Birth of Socialism in America==
Debs, [[Socialist Party of America|SPA]] co-founder [[Frederic Heath]], and other SPA members wrote that with the book [[Looking Backward]] under the guise of "nationalism", socialism was fostered in the United States.
{{cquote|The first national convention of the Social Democracy of America pays tribute to the memory of [[Edward Bellamy]], first to popularize the ideas of Socialism among his countrymen and last to be forgotten by them.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Heath |first1=Frederic |year=1900 |title=Social democracy red book |publisher= Cambridge University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46A0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA64 |pages=64-65 }}</ref>}}
==See also==
==See also==