Daniel de Leon

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Daniel DeLeon was an American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. He is regarded as the forefather of the idea of revolutionary industrial unionism and was the leading figure in the Socialist Labor Party of America from 1890 until the time of his death.Daniel De Leon was born December 14, 1852 in Curaçao, the son of Salomon de Leon, a surgeon in the Royal Netherlands Army and colonial official and Sarah Jesurun De Leon. His family is believed to be of Spanish-Dutch Jewish ancestry, his father having lived in the Netherlands before coming to Curaçao after receiving his commission in the military. Salomon De Leon died on January 18, 1865, when Daniel was twelve and was the first to be buried in the new Jewish cemetery