Kennedy Plaza in Providence today could have inspired Jack London's " People of the Abyss " or H.P. Lovecraft's " Horror at Red Hook "

Kennedy Plaza today could have inspired Jack London 's " People of the Abyss " and H.P. Lovecraft's ( " I AM PROVIDENCE " ) horror tale " Horror at Red Hook ". In the last years of his life HPL - also horrified by the GREAT DEPRESSION - spoke of his conversion to some form of democratic socialism. He favored then Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas. Consult his numerous " LETTERS " for 1936 and 1937 ( the year of his death ). The visible decay of capitalism . But SOCIALISM is not even a thought in the heads of our bourgeois " progressive " Democrat , Rhode Island politicians. They must think FOR PROFIT capitalism is just the eternal law of the cosmos. Or our ruling class rules by divine right ?