 Complete the following phrase:  Yet Fearings poems were almost never overtly political, and his associates often found him uncommitted to communism. He told the Daily Worker in 1938, Ive not tried deliberately to be Marxist in my poetry ... Marxism is valuable in literature only to the extent that the writer assimilates it. Consequently its principles become part of a writers background, the way he thinks and feels and interprets it. Fearings family maintained that politics was never an important part of his life. His son Bruce said that his father used a leftist political milieu to get his poetry published; he didnt believe in politics, he believed in poetry. As a Jew, a pacifist, and an anti-fascist, Fearing was uncomfortable with the American Communist Partys support of the 