Why Indiana and the Rest of the U.S. Needs a Revolutionary Socialist Movement
If you mention Indiana to someone on the U.S. Left, they are likely to know two things: that Eugene Debs, the one-time leader of the American Socialist Party, was born there; and that Indiana was a birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan. In the first 30 years of the 20th century, these forces fought tooth and nail over the direction of Indiana and American politics: the Socialist Party held an inaugural ratification convention in Indianapolis in 1901, and held its national convention there in 1912, when Debs got more than a million votes running for President.