Daniel De Leon (1852-1914) was a Curaçao-born American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician and trade union organizer regarded as the forefather of revolutionary industrial unionism. He led the Socialist Labor Party of America from 1890 until his death and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World, and his ideas contributed to the founding of Socialist Labor parties across the English-speaking world.
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Daniel De Leon (; December 14, 1852, May 11, 1914), alternatively spelled Daniel de León, was a Curaçao-born American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer.
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De Leon was highly critical of the trade union movement in America and described the craft-oriented American Federation of Labor as the "American Separation of Labor".
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