Make America communist in the great depression

I heard there was a big communist party in the us during the 20´s and 30's and it was very popular among the middle classes , how could communism takes over the US during the late 20's and early 30's?
 
1920s is too early but a failed response to the Depression, such as FDR is killed in early 1933 and Garner does nothing of note to cope with the Depression, might set the stage for something circa 1935-36. This is honestly very difficult; the US was not particularly friendly territory for Communism, but given enough desperation and a few breaks here and there it isn't completely inconceivable. To be honest, I'd expect Fascism to have more of a chance, but given the tumult of the era, it can't be completely dismissed, either, particularly if Fascism became associated with the financial and business interests that many blamed for the Depression and you simultaneously had a rising labor movement more militant than OTL.
 
OTL we can learn a lot by comparing music and the Spanish Civil War. Then compare labour movements in Canada with the USA.

During the Great Depression, American folk-singers like Woody Guthrie and U. Utah Phillips developed a whole genre of protest songs, mostly about poor working men riding the rails in search of work. Woody even wrote a song entitled "This guitar kills fascists."
OTOH when unemployed Canadian workers tried a march on Ottawa, they were stopped by a police riot in Winnipeg. It was much easier to stop the March on Ottawa because Canada only has one or two railroads that cross the entire country and they converge in Winnipeg. East of Winnipeg, the railroads have to crosses hundreds of miles of thinnly-populated forest with only the occasional mining or logging town in Noryhern Ontario.

Few of these unemployed men (Canadian or American) had Marxizt-Leninist leanings, because their interest were more towards organized labour unions to ease the plight of poor working men.

Another amusing comparison can be made between Americans and Canadians who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. American volunteers tended to be well-educated, middle-class communists. American volunteers were dedicated communists but had little experience living-rough.

OTOH Canadian volunteers included more recent immigrants from Finnland, Hungary, etc. who had ridden the rails in search of work in logging camps, farms, mines, etc. so knew most of the tricks to living-rough, which made them tough soldiers. However, when they got to Spain, political Commisars complained that Canadian volunteers "were not communist enough" questioning orders, deserting, etc. Canadian volunteers did not blindly follow authoritarian communist officers.
 
Steinbeck's Law

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Actually, that is a misquote, probably by a fellow named Ronald Wright, of this:

From Steinbeck's article "A Primer on the '30s." Esquire, June 1960: 85-93.
"Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."

In order to make socialism, and by extension, communism, take hold in the USA, you would need to end the Frontier earlier, at least by the 1850s, and allow time for a genuine 'proletarianization' of the American workers to take place. So long as there are horizons and rainbows to attract the disaffected, ideology doesn't stand a chance. Unless, of course, you are willing to wait for the 21st Century to swing around.
 
This might offer some useful suggestions.

There is a timeline that deals with just that scenario. The main PoD involves McKinley not being assassinated, which puts a damper on the Progressive Era, as well as an early American entry into WW1. As a result, more radical socialist ideas become more popular, and in 1932 Communists win the Presidential elections. In response General MacArthur tries to launch a coup, which leads to a civil war and then a full blown revolution.
 
Another thing to consider is the fact that the US labour movement tended to be dominated by political moderates and craft unions. One of the major things I'm considering for my Socialism in America timeline (which I will get round to doing one of these days) is to have the labour movement take a more radical turn. Basically OTL Samuel Gompers was in charge of the AFL and kept it quite moderate and craft union dominated, but in 1911 he was nearly jailed and a year later faced his only major threat to leadership since 1895 from Max Hayes who was a socialist. IOTL his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court, and he was able to defeat Hayes in the leadership contest.

What I'm planning to do is have his conviction go ahead, and as a result Hayes is able to narrowly win the ensuing leadership contest (there are also some other PoDs that strengthen the socialists in the AFL to make it a bit more plausible). As a result the AFL embraces industrial unionism (which tended to be more radical and IMO is much more conducive to developing class conciousness), and becomes more socialist oriented. A few moderates break off, with some joining the flagging Knights of Labor in exchange for embracing industrial unionism, whilst others try to form an independent craft union federation, but it eventually collapses due to lack of support.
 
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