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==Socialist Party leader==
==Socialist Party leader==
Long interested in socialism in the abstract, Debs read up on the subject while in prison, and in 1897 he transformed the remnants of the ARU into the Social Democratic Party of America, later called the [[Socialist Party of America]]. He never again engaged in union work. He served as associate editor of the Socialist weekly, the ''Appeal to Reason,'' (based in the coal mining town of of Girard, Kansas) and for years was a highly successful lecturer on behalf of socialism. In 1905, he helped found the [[Industrial Workers of the World]], but soon quit because of its extreme radicalism and proclivity to violence. The Socialist Party was splintered and Debs was one of the few leaders with an appeal to the intellectuals, the "gas-and-water" activists (who accepted capitalism but wanted cities to own the water and gas systems), the immigrant Germans and Jews, the militant coal miners, the ex-Populists from Kansas and Oklahoma, and the radicals who wanted to peacefully destroy capitalism.
Long interested in socialism in the abstract, Debs read up on the subject while in prison, and in 1897 he transformed the remnants of the ARU into the Social Democratic Party of America, later called the [[Socialist Party of America]]. He never again engaged in union work. He served as associate editor of the Socialist weekly, the ''Appeal to Reason,'' (based in the coal mining town of Girard, Kansas) and for years was a highly successful lecturer on behalf of socialism. In 1905, he helped found the [[Industrial Workers of the World]], but soon quit because of its extreme radicalism and proclivity to violence. The Socialist Party was splintered and Debs was one of the few leaders with an appeal to the intellectuals, the "gas-and-water" activists (who accepted capitalism but wanted cities to own the water and gas systems), the immigrant Germans and Jews, the militant coal miners, the ex-Populists from Kansas and Oklahoma, and the radicals who wanted to peacefully destroy capitalism.
===1912===
===1912===