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The political Left remained small during the 1930s, but it exercised influence on politics in proportions greater than its numbers. After the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, more than three thousand American leftists traveled to Spain to fight for the democratically elected republican government against the fascist troops of Gen. Francisco Franco. On the home front Communists and other leftists pointed out that the economic collapse of 1929 occurred in an economy where wealth was not equally distributed. The richest fifth of the American population owned more than half the nation's wealth, while the poorest 40 percent of Americans owned only about 10 percent of the wealth. Communists argued that the unrelenting Depression signaled the end of such an inequitable system, which would be replaced by communism. Communists organized a hunger march on Washington, D.C. (1931), organized black sharecroppers, and worked within unions to foment radical acton...
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