Gottfried Feder vs. Eugene V. Debs
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Gottfried Feder
1883 – 1941
Gottfried Feder was a German civil engineer, a self-taught economist, and one of the early key members of the Nazi Party and its economic theoretician. One of his lectures, delivered on 12 September 1919, drew Adolf Hitler into the party.
"Gottfried Feder gave the Nazi Party an ideology. Its essential points were paramount State ownership of land and the prohibition of private sales of land, the s…"
Eugene V. Debs
1855 – 1926
Eugene Victor Debs was an American socialist activist and trade unionist. He was one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States; through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States.
"The Republican and Democratic parties are alike capitalist parties — differing only in being committed to different sets of capitalist interests — they have the…"