The Modern Monthly. Vol. 9 No. 12. August, 1936.

Contents: Editorial: Will Landon Bring Fascism to America?, Spain Ablaze by Ludwig Lore, Why Churches Burn In Spain by VIincenzo Vacira, The Dead Liebknecht by Rudolph Leohard, After the New Deal – What? by Norman Thomas, The Uses Of Opposition by Sidney Hook, Criticism on the Barricades by V.F. Calverton, Black Alabama by Carleton Beals, The Tragedy of Pabst by Herman G. Weinberg, Johann Most: Terrorist of the Word by Max Nomad, A Note on Norman Thomas by Samuel Romer, Literary Caravan.

Modern Quarterly began in 1923 by V. F. Calverton. Calverton, born George Goetz (1900–1940), a radical writer, literary critic and publisher. Based in Baltimore, Modern Quarterly was an unaligned socialist discussion magazine, and dominated by its editor. Calverton’s interest in and support for Black liberation opened the pages of MQ to a host of the most important Black writers and debates of the 1920s and 30s, enough to make it an important historic US left journal. In addition, MQ covered sexual topics rarely openly discussed as well as the arts and literature, and had considerable attention from left intellectuals in the 1920s and early 1930s. From 1933 until Calverton’s early death from alcoholism in 1940 Modern Quarterly continued as The Modern Monthly. Increasingly involved in bitter polemics with the Communist Party-aligned writers, Modern Monthly became more overtly ‘Anti-Stalinist’ in the mid-1930s Calverton, very much an iconoclast and often accused of dilettantism, also opposed entry into World War Two which put him and his journal at odds with much of left and progressive thinking of the later 1930s, further leading to the journal’s isolation.

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