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Daniel De Leon (December 14, 1852 – May 11, 1914) was a Statesian socialist who served as the leader of the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP) from 1891 until his death. De Leon was an influential thinker in early socialist thought in the United States and was also a co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), although he only briefly associated with it.
He supported a society administered by industrial unions instead of the contemporary dictatorship of the proletariat.[1] He believed in a two-front approach to the socialist movement, where industrial unions organize to attack the bourgeoisie along the economic sphere, while a political party organizes to attack the bourgeoisie along the political sphere.[2] He viewed the socialist movement as revolutionary, disavowing reformism as purely external changes.[3]
De Leon's two-front approach is limited in that the two pillars focus on conflicting purposes; with unions engaging in the very economist fights for immediate relief that De Leon rejected as pointless. Either the trade unions are subordinate to the political goal of state conquest or they are their own organizations seeking out economist victories.[4] However, he did correctly criticize the AFL for being class-collaborationist and called for creating new unions instead of radicalizing existing ones.[5]
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