Great discussion on Debs—he was an important historical figure who has had a major influence on modern leftists (even though most do not know it).
Here is an old tract he wrote on the subject of immigration—his argument that leftists from all over the world should be welcome in the country to help crush the evil capitalists:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1910/immigration.htm
He was an out and out Marxist... and quite the slick talking demagogue. He’s fully into the oppressor-oppressed worldview.
“Have just read the majority report of the Committee on Immigration. It is utterly unsocialistic, reactionary and in truth outrageous, and I hope you will oppose with all your power. The plea that certain races are to be excluded because of tactical expediency would be entirely consistent in a bourgeois convention of self-seekers, but should have no place in a proletariat gathering under the auspices of an international movement that is calling on the oppressed and exploited workers of all the world to unite for their emancipation. . “