Maynard C. Krueger

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Maynard C. Krueger
Born 1906
Died 1991-12-20
Nationality American
Employers University of Chicago
Known for Socialist Vice-Presidential Candidate (1940)
Political party Socialist
Spouse Pauline nee Edwards[1]

Maynard C. Krueger (1906[2] - 20 December 1991) was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. As a young man he lived in Paris where he knew George Orwell.

Returning to the US he became a lecturer at the University of Chicago lecturing in Sociology under Edward Shils. He also helped out at other left-wing organizations such as the Chicago Workers Committee on Unemployment[3] in 1933. In August of 1933 he was a delegate at the Socialist International Congress in August 1933 advocating arming the proletariat[3]. He was on the executive committee of the Socialist Party of America[3].

In the NBC Radio network radio debate "Road to Serfdom," with Friedrich Hayek and Charles Merriam on the 1945-04-22 he was described as party chairman [4]. In 1940 as part of the campaign he took isolationist line and against the celebration of A. E. F. Day on the 11th of November. On a handbill, 5.5x8.5 inches, all text both sides (circa 1940 or 41)[5]:

Campaign for World Government, et al
No A.E.F. Day, November 11th, keep out of war.
Armistice day rally...
Speakers Donavan E. Smucker, Midwest Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, 
'Food for Freedom,' Maynard C. Krueger, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago.

He was Socialist candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1940[6], alongside Presidential candidate Norman Thomas. The Socialist ticket won 0.2% of the vote; incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt remained in office with 54.7%. In 1948, Krueger ran as an Independent candidate for U.S. Representative from Illinois' 2nd congressional district.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Obituaries on 1familytree.com. Retrieved on 2008-02-18.
  2. ^ Busky, Donald F. [2000]. Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey (248 pages), Greenwood Publishing Group, p161. ISBN 0275968863. Retrieved on 2008-02-18. 
  3. ^ a b c Kirkpatrick Dilling, Elizabeth [1935]. The Red Network: A "Who's Who" and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots (338 pages), Ayer Publishing, p72, 113, 133,. ISBN 0405099460. Retrieved on 2008-02-18. 
  4. ^ Hayek, F. A. [1994-06-01]. "3", Hayek on Hayek: An Autobiographical Dialogue (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek) (177 pages), University Of Chicago Press, pp109-123. ISBN 978-0226320625. 
  5. ^ Bolerium Books - Handbill. Retrieved on 2008-02-18.
  6. ^ "Socialists Convene" (in en) (1940-04-15). Time Magazine. “"We Socialists are not interested in trying to make the Capitalist system work. Hoover and Roosevelt have tried that and proved that it can't be done."” 
  • Krueger, Maynard C. (May, 1935). "Economic and Political Radicalism". The American Journal of Sociology 40 (6): 764-771. 
  • Krueger, Maynard C. [1934]. Inflation, Who Wins and Who Loses?. Socialist Party of America. 
  • American Socialist Quarterly (July 1934)


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