ABSTRACT
As long as The New International carried the main burden of propaganda for the Left Wing, no great progress was possible. The Socialist Propaganda League was too small and poor to be able to put its paper out regularly, though it claimed to have twenty branches in twelve states by the summer of 1917. The staff of The Revolutionary Age indicated some of the changes that had been taking place in the Left Wing. Louis C. Fraina remained as editor, but Eadmonn MacAlpine came in as associate editor. The contributing editors were Scott Nearing, John Reed, Nicholas I. Reed's direct impressions of the American scene were his own; his solution of the problem was the orthodox one of the entire Left Wing. The clearest and most direct way to subscribe to the Russian Revolution in the United States, was, first, to join the Socialist party, and, second, to join the Left Wing within the Socialist party.
