He broke with pacifist politics in a 1940 article fittingly titled “An End to Illusions.” In it, he made public his decision to resign from the Socialist Party because he refused to toe the neutralist party line. “The Socialists have a dogma that this war is a clash of rival imperialisms,” he wrote. “Of course they are right. So is a clash between myself and a gangster a conflict of rival egotisms.”
