Reply #5: You're right--1930's saw a huge rise in Labor unrest

[Terran]

and American socialism. I don't think it's quite accurate that people just took it all passively. *Some* people, at least, became very radicalized and tried very actively to do something about it. The government was scared for a while there that there would be a revolution in the US, such was the high profile of the radical Left.

I wrote my thesis on John Dos Passos and the USA Trilogy, and he was a good example of the how people were attracted to leftist causes during the Depression, and how a lot of artists depicted it.