Reflecting on Communism after experiencing its hand in the Spanish civil war, Dos Passos is reported to have commented, "Progressive politics without human dignity is a sham." His admiration for Communism waned and then died after this experience. He came to believe that the Capitalist system would ultimately be the best for all. However, what he wrote and believed as a young socialist still uniquely applied to him at his end, "...somehow men's predatory instincts, incarnate in the capitalist system, can be canalized into other channels, leaving free communities of artisans and farmers and fisherman and cattle breeders who would work for their livelihood with pleasure, because the work itself was enjoyable in the serene white light of a reasonable world." Oh, if it only could be so.
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