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Biography of Daniel De Leon
Name: Daniel De Leon
Birth Date: 1852
Death Date: 1914
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: labor activist, journalist
Daniel De Leon
The American Socialist theoretician and political leader Daniel De Leon (1852-1914) was, according to Lenin, "the greatest of modern Socialists--the only one who has added anything to Socialist thought since Marx." However, De Leon's Socialist Labor party remained a tiny sect.According to his own testimony, Daniel De Leon was born into a wealthy family on the island of Curaçao near Venezuela, but it is possible that he was American-born. He was also said to have studied languages, history, philosophy, and mathematics at Dutch and German universities between 1865 and 1871. In 1872 he came to New York City and briefly assisted Cuban revolutionaries editing a Spanish-language newspaper. De Leon taught at a preparatory school and in 1876 entered Columbia University Law School. He graduated in a year and in 1883 was appointed to an international law lectureship at Columbia. He left Columbia in 1889, when he was denied a promised promotion.De Leon's …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…even during his lifetime. Associated Organizations Further Reading Most accounts of De Leon's career in histories of the American Socialist movement are essentially hostile to him. These include Ira Kipnis, The American Socialist Movement, 1897-1912 (1952); Howard H. Quint, The Forging of American Socialism (1953); David A. Shannon, The Socialist Party of America (1955); and Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (1969). A helpful study is Daniel De Leon, the Man and His Work: A Symposium (1920), published by the Socialist Labor party. There is also an essay on De Leon in Charles A. Madison, Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (1947; 2d ed. 1959).Coleman, Stephen, Daniel De Leon, Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, 1990. Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. and Canada by St. Martin's Press. Seretan, L. Glen, Daniel DeLeon, the odyssey of an American Marxist, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.
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