Communist Party's ultra-leftism of 1920s changed to United Front strategy of 1930s

Looking at how the Communist International directed its constituent national parties (Canada , etc.) to adopt a position of ultra-leftism in the late 1920s, I asked myself why would they do that when the Roaring 20s was at its peak - you would think that the prospects for a socialist revolution were at their lowest at that time, instead of being a good possibility. 

the political unreality of their position was realized by the Communist International by 1934/5 when it adopted a United Front strategy,

(Margaret Crang's defence of unemployed and lefitsts, and the Social Credit finding common ground with the Communist Party (Leslie Morris) are signs of this United Front period. My book Protest and Progress (available from Alhambra Books, Edmonton) reported on these.)

But economically the stock market crash and the coming of the Great Depression gave evidence of some prescience to their changed stance,

and that led me to today's New Optimist movement (I found it out of the blue by googling)

that led me to recall Dickens' "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times" from A Tale of Two Cities...

and that led me to think about our situation in general today -

we have better technology than ever before, etc.

but there is lots of stress, road rage, school shootings, ecological disasters, so definitely a mixed bag.

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