Right now, a lot of people are exhausted from the grind, and many of them haven't had a choice.

We're seeing historically high inflation waves of resignations and labor strikes and

a supply chain that's cracking under the pressure.

So today, we're bringing you a story from our archives.

It's about a man who was facing a similar world, Eugene Debs.

He saw the power that the working class people of America had to change the course of history.

And he tried to unite them in a movement against capitalism.

He believed the US could only thrive if we built something together.

But the wealth of the nation belonged to all the people, and not just the millionaires.

The ruling class has always fought and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty

to go to war and to have yourself slaughtered at that command.

But in all the history of the world, you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war.

We need in this country and throughout the world an economic system in which we produce

goods and services for the use of all and not for the profit of the view.

As you probably guess, that's the voice of Bernie Sanders.

But it's not a clip from one of his presidential rallies or stump speeches or even from his

time in the Senate or his mayor in Vermont.

In fact, they aren't even his words.

He was reciting a speech by Eugene V. Debs.

Political heroes was not a politician, Martin Luther King, Jr. was an extraordinary leader.

So I have an enormous respect for Dr. King.

Also for Eugene Debs, who was the great socialist party leader in the early part of the 20th

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