Editing J. Sakai (section)

=== <u>Eugene Debs & the Socialist Party</u> ===
Sakai also distorts history and selectively quotes to make various white socialist figures look as bad as possible multiple times throughout the book. For instance, he says<blockquote>These Japanese laborers were subjected to the most vicious persecution and exploitation, with the bourgeois politicians and press stirring up mob terror against them constantly. Both the Socialist Party of Eugene Debs and the A.F.L. unions helped lead the anti-Asian campaign among the settler masses.<ref>https://readsettlers.org/ch6.html </ref></blockquote>"Socialist Party of Eugene Debs" seems to imply Debs was responsible for or involved with this chauvinism. Yet this was a policy pursued by the ''right wing'' of the Socialist Party and Eugene Deb always opposed it.<blockquote>Eugene Debs was outraged by the Party's debate on immigration. His views were published in the International Socialist Review shortly after the Congress- which, typically, he did not attend. Debs felt that the majority report represented a thorough capitulation to the AFL-"civic federation unionism." He called it "utterly unsocial istic, reactionary, and in truth outrageous," and warned, "If Socialism, international revolutionary Socialism, does not stand staunchly, unflinchingly, and uncompromisingly for the working class and for the oppressed masses of all lands, then it stands for none and its claim is a false pretense and its profession a delusion and a snare."<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/40401319 p. 11-12</ref></blockquote>