Debs Tendency
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The Debs Tendency (DT) is a left-wing political tendency in the Socialist Party USA (SP USA). The primary goal of the DT is the development of the SP as a revolutionary democratic socialist political party of the working class. The mission of such a party is intended to be the defeat of capitalism and capitalist rule, the establishment of a democratic workers' republic, the abolition of the old system, which rests on class antagonism and minority rule, and the foundation of a new society without classes and without the tyranny of capitalist private property.
The Debs Tendency was organized following the 2003 Socialist National Convention, which nominated Walt Brown as the SP's 2004 Presidential candidate. Concerned by what they saw as a centrist orientation of the organization, a number of Socialist Party members from across the country came together to promote the revolutionary democratic socialist principles that, in their view, initially built the SP and brought it to its initial prominence in the early decades of the twentieth century. These comrades united to defend and promote their view of the historical legacy and traditions of Eugene V. Debs and his vision of the Party.
[edit] Appeal to Reason
In its continued pursuit to return the SP to what they saw as its revolutionary roots, on July 3, 2004 the Debs Tendency published the first issue of a new series of Appeal to Reason. Appeal to Reason had been originally founded by Julius Wayland in 1897, and was one of the largest publications in the United States until its discontinuance in 1922. In 2005, the new Appeal to Reason was converted to a blog (http://www.appealtoreason.org/), which no longer seems active.
