Everything about Epic Movement totally explained
Short for
End Poverty in California,
EPIC was an effort for well-known
muckraking writer and former
Socialist Upton Sinclair to implement Socialist reforms through
California's
Democratic Party during the
Great Depression by recruiting supporters into the party and then securing that party's nomination for
Governor of California.
The EPIC plan was based on Sinclair's proposal that the state of California take over idle factories and farmland, which would then be run as
cooperatives in the theme of
production for use, instead of
production for profit. The idea was to use these cooperatives to put the unemployed back to work. To run the cooperatives, Sinclair proposed the formation of an agency to be called the California Authority for Production. The proposal received widespread attention, and supporters formed EPIC clubs to promote it.
Sinclair's movement aroused the strong opposition of business leaders and Republicans in the state, including
Louis B. Mayer, head of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio, who was chair of the California Republican Party in 1932 and 1933. Meanwhile, many moderate Democrats, who found Sinclair's proposals extreme, rallied around a
third-party candidate. The effort to stop Sinclair marked the birth of modern
media politics including the use of
ad agencies, attack ads,
motion picture propaganda, and professional
campaign strategists.
Upton Sinclair received 879,537 votes, or 37% of the vote in the 1934 election. His Republican opponent,
Frank Merriam, won the election with 1,138,620 votes, or 48%.
Raymond L. Haight for the Commonwealth Party took 13% of the vote (302,000 votes), making Merriam a minority Governor.
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