Deb's only full-length book (first published in 1927) is a lively memoir as well as a stirring critique, drawing on his own prison experiences. He served time for his leading role in the Pullman Strike in 1894, and was sent to the penitentiary again in 1919 for opposing World War 1. In 1920, as Convict N. 9653, he ran for President on the Socialist ticket and received a million votes. Debs explains in this book why prisons don't (and can't) reform or deter anyone, and how prisons in fact create criminals. He discusses prison labor and the links between prison and militarism. Above all, he exposes the class bias of the entire US criminal justice system, showing that "the prison problem is directly correlated with poverty." His conclusion: "Capitalism and crime have become almost synonymous terms." Arguing that prison "should not merely be reformed but abolished," Debs called for a socialism of solidarity, freedom and love, firmly rooted in industrial democracy, without which political democracy is a sham. Only with the advent of such a social revolution, Debs's view, can society succeed in "taking the jail out of man as well taking man out of jail". This handsome new edition contains an important introduction by David Dellinger - himself a lifelong revolutionary, and no stranger to prisons.
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"The social environment is the cultural medium of criminality; the criminal is the microbe--an element that becomes important only when it finds a medium which will cause it to ferment. /Every society has the criminals it deserves/" --Lascussagne "My Prison Creed While there is a lower class I am in it; While there is a criminal element I am of it; While there's a soul in prison I am not free." --Eugene Victor Debs
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Since what we go through on Earth, is the continual turning of the tables-and those who are oppressed especially prisoners-return as those who will oppress us. That is why the people in power now are thieves psychotic satanists and child molesters and sadists. It is wrong to oppress anyone even criminals because they will eventually by Karma then oppress you, and that's why Jesus said" love your enemies". I am sure that Ron Paul is the reincarnation of Eugene Debs, and for a long time I had him confused with Ru Paul, then I found out he was a republican so I did not trust him. Then I read this great book and now I love Ron Paul/Eugene Debs
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