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https://debsproject.org/2019/03/16/debs-and-berger-part-ways-19-06/ Happy Saturday! Time for another installment of the Debs blog. This week we take a look at the polarizing Victor L. Berger — the second most popular leader in the Socialist Party of America during its early years based on voting results, I parenthetically note — his socialist newspaper empire, his views on the American Federation of Labor. Then I make use of quantitative analysis of Gene Debs’s journalism to demonstrate that he and Berger made a political break in 1906, ostensibly over the Industrial Workers of the World, despite the lack of surviving documentary evidence to bolster this supposition. (Don’t worry, no math, no t-tests — I’m just gonna stick my neck out there and presume as axiomatic that a decline from 44% of EVD’s output being first published by Berger in 1903 to 0% in 1906 and 1907 is statistically significant!) Yeah, I know, it’s long and it’s esoteric. Tim Davenport https://debsproject.org/2019/03/16/debs-and-berger-part-ways-19-06/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
