Orestes Brownson was a self-educated resident of upstate New York. He became a Universalist minister and editor of the church newspaper and other local papers. Turning to social concerns, he used his editorial skills to advocate Owenite, or early socialist solutions, for the poor conditions of the working people. He eventually moved to Boston and created his own journal, the Boston Quarterly Review, which later became Brownson’s Quarterly Review. In the review, which he wrote mostly by himself, he criticizes the developing capitalism system from the perspective of the working people that had similarities to Karl Marx in Europe, who both did not know each other. Eugene V. Debs was born in Indiana, where he went to work for the railroad at the
