Why does Eugene Debs get no respect from the modern American

>>1375580
Socialists love him, Bernie mentions him pretty often.

But because he died 90 years ago, and because most history classes don't mention him for some strange reason, he's not that relevant to American politics.

>>1375616
Yeah, he's still an idol to the old left people focused on economic inequalities, like Bernie Sanders or Noam Chomsky, but to modern American leftists (i.e. liberals/Democrats) starting in the 1960s who focus on identity politics, he's basically a nonentity. Empowering the working class is no longer a major goal; they're sometimes outright disdained.

>>1375658
Well the "new left" is a joke. Mainline Democrats aren't really leftists, and even their dedication to immaterial social progressivism is pretty half-hearted.

>>1375580
>le leftists hate whites meme

>>1375736
How is that a meme? The Old Left didn't, but they aren't running the show anymore.

>>1375671
Agreed, I think "limousine liberal" memes are stale, but those people really took over the Democratic Party and changed what it meant to be a leftist in America. Both parties in the US are fairly elitist, but on different ways.

Debs is a meme socialist.

Lots of schools don't teach about him anymore. Texas effectively decides what's going into the textbooks and while they're not opposed to revisionism, a convenient omission is certainly something they can be happy with.

>>1375580
Because the modern leftist is actually a neo-liberal critical theorist in disguise.

>>1375580
Debs is probably in the top 3 most popular American socialists among modern American leftists. I'm not sure why you'd think otherwise.

>>1375616
>>1377659
My high school history class learned about him, but then again our teach had us read sections out of A People's History of the United States.

>>1375671
>>1375658

Democrats have never embraced socialists like Debs. No major US party has ever made "empowering the working class," in the socialist sense of the phrase, part of their platform.

>>1377705
I learned about him in school too, but my school system had special textbooks for US history

>>1377710
Well, the Democrats at least used to be fairly pro-union and pro-labor (certainly not to the extent of Labour in the UK, for example) in the post-New Deal years, while the Republicans emerged as more pro-business after WWII. This basically evaporated in the Carter-Reagan-Bush years when both parties pretty much became pro business and the Democrats really turned away from unions.