A socialist clergyman, writing in 1927, in The New Leader, the socialist magazine of that day, called for a new strategy of the American socialist party. He said they must infiltrate government and put men in government jobs and then he said we must work for government ownership of power, government control of railroads and banking and key industries. And he said we'll call our program, Encroaching Control.
1927, Rev. Rauschenbusch "New Leader," Official Soc. Paper The [American] people will never knowingly stage a revolution to bring about socialism. So we should promote the idea of increased [government] control of business & having Socialists get [government] jobs. One man in [government] with his eyes and ears open can do more than a hundred men on the outside. They must work to promote more [government] control of banks, [rail roads] and other businesses; to start a program of [government] control of [electric] power and work for [political] control and management of all key industries. (It didn't bother the [Reverend] that people who wouldn't knowingly vote for [Socialism] should have it forced on them). (page 45)
In 1927 the Socialist Raushenbush, writing in the official socialist paper, the "New Leader," urged his fellow socialists to recognize they could not hope for revolution in America. He therefore offered a new program for promoting socialism by increasing government control of business. He called his program "encroaching control."