Earl Browder

What is Communism?

First Published: 1936
Transcription, Editing and Markup: Paul Saba
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CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

INTRODUCTION: THE CHIEF ISSUES IN THE 1936 ELECTIONS

I. WHO ARE THE AMERICANS?

II. BIG TROUBLE AHEAD

III. A SPECIAL KIND OF DEPRESSION

IV. FASCISM: AMERICAN BRAND

V. HUEY LONG’S ASSASSINATION

VI. FATHER COUGHLIN: PRIEST OR POLITICIAN

VII. PROPHETS OF THE PROMISED LAND

VIII. THE SPLIT IN THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT

IX. THE UNITED FRONT

X. A FARMER-LABOR PARTY

XI. CAN THE WORKERS LEAD A PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT?

XII. THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT

XIII. THE QUESTION OF TACTICS

XIV. FORCE AND VIOLENCE

XV. THE FIGHT FOR PEACE

XVI. THE NEGRO PEOPLE AND LABOR

XVII. WHAT ABOUT RELIGION?

XVIII. THE FAMILY AND REVOLUTION

XIX. HOW THE COMMUNIST PARTY WORKS

XX. WHERE SOCIALISM ALREADY EXISTS

XXI. A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET AMERICA

APPENDIX: THE COMMUNIST ELECTION PLATFORM, 1936

INDEX

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