How did Tillie Olsen become involved with the Young Communist League?

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Tillie Olsen’s involvement with the Young Communist League began at the start of 1930, when she began to live independently of her parents. Although her parents held socialist values and were members of the Bund, they detested bolshevism.1

Olsen, however, came to revere communism, an interest influenced by several men, including Abraham Jevons Goldfarb. Following her 18th birthday, she began crusading for the Communist Party of the United States throughout the Midwest.1