‘Proletarian Literature in the Middle West’ by Meridel Le Sueur from The American Writers Congress. International Publishers, New York, 1935.

‘Proletarian Literature in the Middle West’ by Meridel Le Sueur from The American Writers Congress. International Publishers, New York, 1935.

Meridel Le Sueur’s contribution to the A.W.C.’s founding collection was this wonderful essay which, for this Ohio-raised comrade, is the illumination of a recognizable portrait of the place, people, and politics. The Midwest as ‘rust belt’ is, in fact, a process that began generations before today as the boom and bust of capitalist accumulation ravaged […]