With selections from TM Becker, Herbert Everett, Isaac Goldberg, Wilby Heard, Varl Holiday, Emanuel Julius, James C McNally, Reginald Wright Kauffman, and Horace Traubel.

The Masses was a socialist magazine published in America from 1911 to 1917. Its demise was brought on when the federal government brought charges against it for conspiring to obstruct conscription during World War I.

Piet Vlag, a Dutch socialist immigrant from the Netherlands, founded the magazine. Costs were originally covered by Rufus Weeks, a vice president at the New York Life Insurance Company. Eventually, a group of New York activists took over the publication and named Max Eastman editor.

His mission statement for the magazine stated:
“A Free Magazine—This magazine is owned and published cooperatively by its editors. It has no dividends to pay, and nobody is trying to make money out of it. A revolutionary and not a reform magazine; a magazine with a sense of humor and no respect for the respectable; frank; arrogant; impertinent; searching for true causes; a magazine directed against rigidity and dogma wherever it is found; printing what is too naked or true for a money-making press; a magazine whose final policy is to do as it pleases and conciliate nobody, not even its readers—There is a field for this publication in America. Help us to find it.”

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