A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

In 1922 after continuing financial troubles the magazine was taken over by the Workers Party of America. In 1922 Eastman embarked on a fact-finding tour of the Soviet Union to learn about the Soviet enactment of Marxism. Marriage and family
After moving to New York City Eastman married Ida Rauh a fellow radical; they divorced in 1922.

Max Forrester Eastman (January 4 1883 – March 25 1969) was an American writer on literature philosophy and society a poet and a prominent political activist. In later life however his views turned sharply and he became an advocate of free market economics and an anti-Communist.