ABSTRACT
Harry Ward was as familiar with the revolutionary traditions in France, Russia, and China and those of smaller countries as he was with the American tradition of bold assertion of inalienable rights for all humanity. The study of the history and progress of revolutions led Ward to sense a revolutionary situation as imminent in the Great Depression decade. The direction of thinking that most appealed to Lynd Ward approximated Dewey's proposal with its expressed desire for a "Yankeefied" pattern of social change that used the slogans and ideas of the American tradition. In the numerous position papers Ward submitted for criticism and revision to his associates, he highlighted necessary immediate actions. New America must strive to win a national election; then Congress must nationalize natural resources, capital plants, banks, and communications; provide a universal insurance system; and bring maximum and minimum income as close together as economic circumstances permit.
