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Upton Sinclair's political views were [[leftist]] and [[socialist]]. He ran for public office several times, running on the [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist Party]] ticket  in 1906 and 1920 for the U.S. Congress, and in 1922 for the [[United States Senate]]. In 1934, he ran on the [[Democratic Party]] ticket for governor of [[California]]. His 1934 run as a Democrat frightened a lot of people, who saw his EPIC (End Poverty In California) plan as an elaborate back-door scheme to bring [[communism]] to California, and he was overwhelmingly defeated.<ref>Upton Sinclair, [http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/sinclair.html End Poverty in California The EPIC Movement], ''The Literary Digest'', October 13, 1934</ref> Remarking on his electoral attempts in 1951, he said, "The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it...", adding that he had only won 60,000 votes running as a Socialist on an open platform of socialism, but 879,000 votes running as a Democrat on an "End Poverty In California" platform.

Upton Sinclair's political views were [[leftist]] and [[socialist]]. He ran for public office several times, running on the [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist Party]] ticket  in 1906 and 1920 for the U.S. Congress, and in 1922 for the [[United States Senate]]. In 1934, he ran on the [[Democratic Party]] ticket for governor of [[California]]. His 1934 run as a Democrat frightened a lot of people, who saw his EPIC (End Poverty In California) plan as an elaborate back-door scheme to bring [[communism]] to California, and he was overwhelmingly defeated.<ref>Upton Sinclair, [http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/sinclair.html End Poverty in California The EPIC Movement], ''The Literary Digest'', October 13, 1934</ref> Remarking on his electoral attempts in 1951, he said, "The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it...", adding that he had only won 60,000 votes running as a Socialist on an open platform of socialism, but 879,000 votes running as a Democrat on an "End Poverty In California" platform.

Upton Sinclair was a co-founder, along with fellow Socialist Party members [[Jack London]] and [[Norman Thomas]], of the [[League for Industrial Democracy]] in 1905. This is the group whose student wing (the Student League for Industrial Democracy) would go on to change their name to [[Students for a Democratic Society]] in 1960 and become the genesis of the [[New Left]] campus unrest of the 1960s.

Upton Sinclair was a co-founder, along with fellow Socialist Party members [[Jack London]] and [[Norman Thomas]], of the [[Intercollegiate Socialist Society]] in 1905.  In 1921, the ISS changed its name to [[League for Industrial Democracy]]. In 1948 the LID formed a student wing called the [[League for Industrial Democracy#Student League for Industrial Democracy|Student League for Industrial Democracy]] which would in 1960 change its name to [[Students for a Democratic Society]], thus becoming the genesis of the [[New Left]] campus unrest of the 1960s.

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