Ginzei Haim ] * 248 [ The story of V . F . Calverton is a case in point . What were the stages in calverton’s disillusionment with the communist dream ? How did the Party treat an independent sympathizer such as calverton was ? How did he sever his relations with the communist camp ? What were the political alternatives for a non - Communist left - wing writer in the American radical movement during the mid - thirties ? This article treats some of these questions . V . F . Calverton ( born in Baltimore as George Goetz, 1900 - 1940 ) was a militant left - wing writer, a Marxist literary critic, editor of his own magazine and a popular lecturer . In the early twenties, inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution, he was converted to Marxism and launched in 1923 The Modern Quarterly, “an independent radical magazine . ” Soon he was contributing to Socialist and communist periodicals . His visit to the Soviet russia in 1 27 was the peak of his close relationship with the communists . at the same ...
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