[During World War I, Eugene V. Debs saw socialism as the “star
of hope” that might redeem a world wracked by violence. Read his
message of renewal as we leave a war-torn year behind and head into a
new one.]
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EUGENE V. DEBS’S WISDOM FOR THE NEW YEAR  
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Eugene V. Debs
January 1, 2024
Jacobin
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_ During World War I, Eugene V. Debs saw socialism as the “star of
hope” that might redeem a world wracked by violence. Read his
message of renewal as we leave a war-torn year behind and head into a
new one. _

American labor activist and socialist leader Eugene V. Debs in 1921.,
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The men and women who have had visions, who have dreamed dreams, have
led in the world’s progress toward higher and better things. These
prophets and seers — for such they have been — have always been
regarded in their day as dreamers and enthusiasts, visionary and
harmless, and but little attention has been paid to their visions and
dreams until in a latter day and generation they were triumphantly
realized.

Victor Hugo had a vision of a day when war would be no more. He
dreamed the poet’s dream of a world without forts and arsenals,
without soldiers and sabers, without bullets and bayonets — a world
wherein peace, enduring peace, should prevail to the utmost
boundaries. He prophesied that “a day will come when bullets and
bombs shall be replaced by ballots, by the universal suffrages of the
people . . . when a cannonball shall be exhibited in our museums as an
instrument of torture in war, and men shall marvel that such things
could ever be.”

Yes, the time will come when “men shall marvel that such things
could ever be.” The time is already here when millions are marveling
that such monstrous things as war and massacre, destruction and
desolation, deliberately plotted by the same human beings, are still
possible upon the earth.

While war remains, savagery still rules, and our vaunted civilization
is the most stupendous delusion that ever deceived and betrayed the
human race.

But the day of peace is dawning. The present bloody war proclaims it.
The earth rocks with the fury of the awful carnage, but out of the
appalling welter of blood and desolation rises the bright star of
hope.

The war is the prelude to socialism, and socialism will bring enduring
peace to a distracted world!

Republished from the _New York Call_
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