‘July Fourth, The American Tradition and Socialism’ by Earl Browder from the Daily Worker. Vol. 15 No. 159. July 4, 1938.

‘July Fourth, The American Tradition and Socialism’ by Earl Browder from the Daily Worker. Vol. 15 No. 159. July 4, 1938.

The 1930s Popular Front-era Communist interpretation of the Fourth of July and War of Independence would baffle even most conservative Socialists of a generation ago. Many Socialists at that time largely viewed the Constitution as a mostly passe document of the 18th century robber class, with yeoman-based ‘Jeffersonian Democracy’ always a myth, and one also […]