Sometimes I think it would have been better for all concerned if the business plotters had gone foreward with their original idiotic plan of approaching Smedley Butler, he'd never have agreed to it and blown the whole gaffe. Given how FDR Has been maligned by propaganda over the years there's some doubt as to whether he was truly a socialist.
Actually, he really would have. While living out his last days in Canada in the mid '40s Butler wrote his memoirs; one of the key parts of the book was describing his real views on the plotters, how the conspiracy was put into motion and how he planned to expose them. Sadly, though, they found out, and he had to flee to a now Liberal-run Ontario in 1935.
It is generally believed that tens of thousands of unauthorized copies of the books that made their way into indie bookstores over the years may have been one of the catalysts of the Revolution in the summer of '42, and of the Second Civil War in 1945 as well. It was also used to help convict the surviving oligarchs during the New York Trials in 1953.