Inadequate Remedy I.C.

wouldn’t let me leave the last few days I was in Moscow . . . the last impression I came away with was fear, fear of the brutal invisible intricate machinery of the police state.”

The disillusion with the Communists became complete when Dos Passos went to Spain during the Civil War to help work on a documentary film designed for propaganda uses in America. Just as Carlo Tresca had predicted they would, the Communists took over the shaping of the film. Dos Passos was horrified to discover that the Spain of “well-intentioned men” had no chance against the Fascists on the Right and the Communists on the Left. He returned to America with a will to believe in the New Deal, only to discover that Franklin Roosevelt had “ceased listening.” A trip to England in 1946, when the Labor government was in power, completed the rout of all of Dos Passos’ socialist opinions.

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wouldn’t let me leave the last few days I was in Moscow . . . the last impression I came away with was fear, fear of the brutal invisible intricate machinery of the police state.”

The disillusion with the Communists became complete when Dos Passos went to Spain during the Civil War to help work on a documentary film designed for propaganda uses in America. Just as Carlo Tresca had predicted they would, the Communists took over the shaping of the film. Dos Passos was horrified to discover that the Spain of “well-intentioned men” had no chance against the Fascists on the Right and the Communists on the Left. He returned to America with a will to believe in the New Deal, only to discover that Franklin Roosevelt had “ceased listening.” A trip to England in 1946, when the Labor government was in power, completed the rout of all of Dos Passos’ socialist opinions.