How I Became a Socialist

E. V. Debs
Written: 1902
First Published: 1902, New York Comrade, April, 1902

Source: Debs, His Life Writings and Speeches, 1908, "The Appeal to Reason,", Girard, Kansas.

Appeal to Reason

As I have some doubt about the readers of “The Comrade’ having any curiosity as to “how I became a Socialist’ it may be in order to say that the subject is the editor’s, not my own; and that what is here offered is at his bidding—my only concern being that he shall not have cause ...