American Decades
"Are We Going Communist? A Debate"
Debate
By: Everett Dean Martin and Earl Browder
Date: November 1936
Source: Martin, Everett Dean, and Earl Browder. "Are We Going Communist? A Debate." Forum and Century, 96, no. 25, November 1936, 202–208.
About the Authors: Everett Dean Martin (1880–1941), a New York-based newspaper columnist early in his career, achieved his greatest influence as a social philosopher in the 1920s and 1930s. He despised the notion of revolution as a solution to societal ills and urged instead the pursuit of democracy for the improvement of humanity. Earl Russell Browder (1891–1973) joined the newly formed American Communist Party after being imprisoned for refusing to be drafted in World War I. Browder advanced through the ranks of the party, eventually leading it during the Great Depression and World War II.
Introduction
The Great Depression caused enormous social...
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1930's Media Primary Sources
- Fortune Magazine Covers
- Amos 'n' Andy Radio Episode 920
- Near v. Minnesota
- "An Emergency Is On!"
- Roosevelt and the Media
- Photography of the Great Depression
- The Lindbergh Case and the Media
- "Landon 1,293,669; Roosevelt, 972,897: Final Returns in the Digest's Poll of Ten Million Voters"
- The Rise of National Magazines
- "Are We Going Communist? A Debate"
- "How to Stay Out of War"
- "The Crash of the Hindenburg"
- Action Comics No. 1
- "Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact"
- "Television in the 1930s"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
