Bertolt Brecht was a German writer who came to the United States to escape the persecution of writers by Hitler. Had he known that he was going to be mistreated when he came to the United States, he probably would not have come all the way here. Hitler was persecuting writers who believed in Marxist ideas because they wrote against the evils he was committing. Hitler wanted the poor to be poorer and the rich to be richer. In Germany, that would be the Aryan's becoming more prominent and the Jews losing everything they have. Brecht was very young and looking desperately for something to believe in. He had a strong relationship with the party because of his second wife, Helene Weigel, who was a large party advocate. Brecht "needed an authoritarian philosophy to sustain him,"" his ideas of communism "remained colored by idealistic and aesthetic leanings- (Hill, 30). Being very dissatisfied with his world, Brecht broke away from it and leaned in favor of the ideas taught to him by Marx. Brecht read and researched a great amount of knowledge from Marx's teachings. .
"Brecht, too, describes himself as a transgressor' in the name of historically provoked doubt: If my class, the bourgeois, could have possibly solved the problems arising, I am sure I would not have wasted my time with the proletariat. But in my time, it had already lost the ability to pose even the right questions. I did not act out of pity. The proletariat did not inspire me with pity and neither did the dying bourgeois."" (Schwarcz, 299).
The bourgeois did nothing to solve the problems that were present around Brecht so he felt the need to see what the proletariats thought. After being around the proletariat, Brecht decided that neither was correct in their beliefs so he "transgressed- into Marxism and Communism, where all are seen as equal and as Brecht believes, there are no problems. Though Brecht was involved in numerous communist affairs, he was not a part of the party.
