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'''Broadus Mitchell''' was a well-known socialist<ref>Jeff Kisseloff, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/wars.html Distorted Reflections], The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth</ref> who served as candidate<ref>[http://www.hofstra.edu/Libraries/WestCampus/SpecialCollections/sc_afc_broadus_mitchell.cfm Broadus Mitchell (1892-1988): Author, Professor, Economist], Special Collections, University Archives Special Collections, Hofstra University</ref> for [[Governor]] of [[Maryland]] for the Socialist Party,<ref>"He ran for Governor of Maryland as a Socialist..." [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,761370,00.html Education: Head on a Platter], ''Time'', May. 22, 1939</ref> U.S. supporter of the [[Comintern]].<ref>"The Socialist Party of the United States, therefore, declares itself in support of the Third (Moscow) International..." Document No. 7: "Minority Report Adopted by Overwhelming Party Vote on Referendum on Submission to the Emergency National Convention Held at Chicago, September, 1919," reprinted in Joint Legislative Committee of the State of New York Investigating Seditious Activities, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Vq0XAAAAYAAJ Revolutionary Radicalism: Its History, Purpose and Tactics]'', Part I, Vol. I (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1920), p. 626; cf. [http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1920/0312-bran-applicationtoci.pdf Application of the Socialist Party of America for Membership in the Communist International], March 12, 1920</ref>

'''Broadus Mitchell''' was a well-known socialist<ref>"... a well-known socialist named Broadus Mitchell." Jeff Kisseloff, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/wars.html Distorted Reflections], The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth</ref> who ran as the Socialist Party candidate for [[Governor]] of [[Maryland]]<ref>"He ran for Governor of Maryland in 1934 on the Socialist Party ticket." [http://www.hofstra.edu/Libraries/WestCampus/SpecialCollections/sc_afc_broadus_mitchell.cfm Broadus Mitchell (1892-1988): Author, Professor, Economist], Special Collections, University Archives Special Collections, Hofstra University; "He ran for Governor of Maryland as a Socialist..." [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,761370,00.html Education: Head on a Platter], ''Time'', May. 22, 1939</ref> U.S. supporter of the [[Comintern]].<ref>"The Socialist Party of the United States, therefore, declares itself in support of the Third (Moscow) International..." Document No. 7: "Minority Report Adopted by Overwhelming Party Vote on Referendum on Submission to the Emergency National Convention Held at Chicago, September, 1919," reprinted in Joint Legislative Committee of the State of New York Investigating Seditious Activities, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Vq0XAAAAYAAJ Revolutionary Radicalism: Its History, Purpose and Tactics]'', Part I, Vol. I (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1920), p. 626; cf. [http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1920/0312-bran-applicationtoci.pdf Application of the Socialist Party of America for Membership in the Communist International], March 12, 1920</ref>

Mitchell was also a professor of Economics at [[Johns Hopkins University]], where one of his more notable students was [[Alger Hiss]], who recalled Mitchell as one of his favorite instructors.<ref>Matthew Richer, "[http://www.mmisi.org/ma/46_04/richer.pdf The Ongoing Campaign of Alger Hiss: The Sins of the Father]," ''Modern Age'', Vol. 46, No. 4 (Fall 2004), p. 310 (PDF p. 4)</ref> According to Hiss, Mitchell was simply a "gifted" [[economics]] [[professor]] who happened to hold some "mildly Socialistic" views.<ref>"My gifted economics teacher, Broadus Mitchell, a Socialist.... his mildly Socialistic opinions ... made no impression on us." Alger Hiss, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/liberalism.html Draft of a Chapter Written By Alger Hiss on the Foundations For His Liberalism] ([http://holliscatalog.harvard.edu//?itemid=|library%2fm%2faleph|010072878 Alger Hiss papers], Small Manuscript Collection, [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/special/index.html Special Collections], [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/index.html Harvard Law School Library])</ref>  

Mitchell was also a professor of Economics at [[Johns Hopkins University]], where one of his more notable students was [[Alger Hiss]], who recalled Mitchell as one of his favorite instructors.<ref>"...one of Hiss’s favorite instructors was Broadus Mitchell..." Matthew Richer, "[http://www.mmisi.org/ma/46_04/richer.pdf The Ongoing Campaign of Alger Hiss: The Sins of the Father]," ''Modern Age'', Vol. 46, No. 4 (Fall 2004), p. 310 (PDF p. 4)</ref> According to Hiss, Mitchell was simply a "gifted" [[economics]] [[professor]] who happened to hold some "mildly Socialistic" views.<ref>"My gifted economics teacher, Broadus Mitchell, a Socialist.... his mildly Socialistic opinions ... made no impression on us." Alger Hiss, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/liberalism.html Draft of a Chapter Written By Alger Hiss on the Foundations For His Liberalism] ([http://holliscatalog.harvard.edu//?itemid=|library%2fm%2faleph|010072878 Alger Hiss papers], Small Manuscript Collection, [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/special/index.html Special Collections], [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/index.html Harvard Law School Library])</ref>  

In fact Mitchell distinguished socialism from [[communism]] only in "[[strategy]] and [[procedure]]," not "essential [[theory]]."<ref>"[T]he difference between socialism and communism.... is not one of object, but of means of attainment of the object; it has to do with strategy and procedure, and not with essential theory." Broadus Mitchell, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nB5BAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1 A Preface to Economics]'' (Henry Holt & Co., 1932-34), p. 557.</ref>

In fact Mitchell distinguished socialism from [[communism]] only in "[[strategy]] and [[procedure]]," not "essential [[theory]]."<ref>"[T]he difference between socialism and communism.... is not one of object, but of means of attainment of the object; it has to do with strategy and procedure, and not with essential theory." Broadus Mitchell, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nB5BAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1 A Preface to Economics]'' (Henry Holt & Co., 1932-34), p. 557.</ref>