The New Masses, which was published from 1926 until 1948, was a prominent American Marxist publication edited by Walt Carmon, briefly by Whittaker Chambers, and primarily (or famously) by Michael Gold, Granville Hicks, and Joseph Freeman. When the Great Depression struck in 1929 America became more receptive to ideas from the political Left. The magazine became a highly influential publication and, from the 1930s onwards was “the principal organ of the American cultural left from 1926 onwards."
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