Cornell University Press. A novel, Marxist in spirit, about the life and times of John Peter Altgeld, featuring the Haymarket Affair and Altgeld's pardoning of the surviving convicted anarchists. This would mean exiling himself from civilization and therefore abandoning art. Standards in art are determined most basically by the economic system and the class structure.
Great artists express the highest objective reality of their time in masterly fashion.
We can use art as a weapon only by understanding the standards of the people. An evaluation of Dreiser's work by a communist writer and literary critic, who asserts that Dreiser has no peer in the American short story and is a unique genius in American letters. The key to Dreiser the artist is compassion, which led him to become a champion of Russia and to join the Communist Party of the U.S. F42 . . . . May Day 1947. United May Day Committee, 1947.