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1935 - 1934 Edmund Wilson and The Modern Monthly, ] * 279 [ editorship ? How did his association with the editors V . F . Calverton and Max eastman — who had been denounced by the Communist Party as “social fascists” and Trotskyists — influenced Wilson’s political standing with the Communists ? these questions deserve close examination . the 1930 s were an age of apocalyptic faith, according to Malcolm Cowley, the literary editor of The New Republic during the thirties . Many american intellectuals looked forward “to something like the destruction of the old Babylonian order and the establishment of a universal commonwealth . ” 3 the Great Depression on the one hand, and the successful Russian five - year plan, on the other, convinced many intellectuals of the superiority of the communist economy over the bankrupt capitalist one . there were growing numbers of writers, critics and commentators, who believed that the depression was not an ordinary decline in the business cycle, but a ca...
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