"the pipers of reaction, despite themselves, also perform a positive function. Their diagnosis is wrong, their remedies are dangerous, they are quacks and shameless hypocrites, but they call attention to the fundamental maladies of our day. Certainly the New Dealers have no cause to be holier-than-thou. Without the New Deal and its trail of broken promises, there might never have been the Share-Our-Wealth Clubs and the Union for Social Justice. This is election year, but the question of which is the bigger and better circus cannot forever blot out the question of bread. There is an awakening in the land, and pipers of a new day are arising in the thousands of men and women who are moving toward farmer-labor action against threatening disaster. Therein lies the hope of America."
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"Pipers of Reaction" in New Masses (April 7, 1936)
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A.B. Magil
Abraham Bernard "Abe" Magil (1905 – January 2003), better known as A.B. Magil, was a journalist, editor, and pamphleteer. He was Jewish and lived most of his life in the USA.
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