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How communists (briefly) ran St. Louis

St. Louis on the Air

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The Socialists in Saint Louis

These were people that had latched on to karl mark's theory s, which were basically a trying to protect the working class at that time. They're much more democratic, and they're much more a interested in helping poor people than they are with modern communists. But he wasn't a communist, but he was sympathetic to revolution. He had experienced it. And so when it came to east saint louis, he wasn't as a, spooked as as they were in saint louis.

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