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biography
pronunciation:
[duh leeon]
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| (1852–1914)
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| Socialist advocate, born on the island of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. He studied in Europe before emigrating to New York City (1874), becoming a lawyer (1878) and lecturer on Latin-American diplomacy at Columbia University (1883–6). Joining the Socialist Labor Party (1890), he was named its national lecturer (1891) and editor of its organ, The People (1892), and was an unsuccessful candidate for governor and Congress. A lifelong leader of the party, antagonistic to existing trade unions, his intrangiency eventually led to formation of a splinter group, the Socialist Party of America. In 1905 he also assisted in the formation of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), which soon fragmented. He was ousted from the IWW and formed his own Workers' International Industrial Union. To opponents he was a disruptive fanatic, but to supporters a man of incorruptible integrity. Lenin praised his writings as incorporating the germ of the Soviet system. |
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