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Communism in the 1930s
In the United States during the 1930s, the population was gripped in the middle of the Great Depression. A large percentage of the people were out of work and suffering. There were people who lost their jobs, their homes, their cars, and everything else that had been valuable to them. The democratic government system which the country had been based on had not proved helpful to aiding the crisis and the people were looking for some means of alleviating their misery. There were violent protests against the government and factory owners who the people felt were not supporting the people and were instead exploiting their misery. The idea of Communism began to seem more appealing to many who had been ruined in the stock market crash and the resulting Great Depression because it was based on the idea that no person should have more than anyone else and that all people would be treated fairly and work to aid their fellow man.
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Factory workers were often paid very little money and worked in dangerous conditions (Faragher 2009,-page 673). If someone got injured on the job then there was no or very little recompense for them, even if they died because of injuries sustained in the work place. Striking workers were often set upon violently, beaten, and even killed for trying to stand up for themselves. In a Communist society, it was promised that there would be no worker vs. factory owner because no one would own more or be allowed to have more than anyone else. Workers who were used to being maltreated were promised equality with those who considered themselves above the laborers; this was a tantalizing promise which would have been hard to resist.
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Works Cited:
Faragher, J.M., Buhle, M.J., Czitrom, D., & Armitage, S.H. (2009). Out of Many: A History of the American People, Volume II. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. 661-90.
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