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Liberalism in my CPUSA? Who could've seen this coming?
(hexbear.net)
John Bachtell, former national committee chairperson of CPUSA, continues the party's decades long tradition of making shit up to discredit the left's greatest accomplishments. Liberals hate that Stalin and the greater communist movement destroyed the independence of Ukraine's ruling class and brought an end to the centuries of antisemitic violence they used to preserve their power.
SMDH my dickhead.
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standing by the USSR during WW2 was good. not too much else tbh
Aren't they all cops at this point?
I assumed that the FBI stopped bothering. They basically finished the job.
They did not. They still harass us from time to time.
At this point it's tradition. They probably get a challenge coin after doing their CPUSA disruption assignment.
yeah, it's dumb
The Old Party had a illustrious history from its Founding to the passing of Gus Hall. At it was a party of the people, many stories of its accomplishments weren't bombastic nor grand, like how the bourgeoise media presents the political parties, but are the stories of the accomplishments of the working class. These stories range from helping black families chased out of their homes by segregationist red-liners find both temporary and later permanent housing, to helping to build unions that still stand today. If America was at war, you could count on the old party to protest against it as the vanguard for peace in ending U.S hostilities.
It had its flaws - as any communist party does - but from Ruthenberg to Hall the party was on the right side of history
We did not; we fought against segregation and fought for the Scottsboro boys most famously.
We were one of the first ones to be against segregation.
W.E.B. DuBois was a member of the CPUSA.
Perhaps you're referring to the Socialist Labor Party?
Or the AFL (before it turned into the AFL-CIO)?
(I don't mean to besmirch either though.)
It's understandable.
People smack-talk CPUSA all the time, but nobody knows our history beyond Settlers by J. Sakai and the other book Black Bolshevik by Harry Haywood.
So, anyway, I admire you saying that last part. 🤝
They were okay in the 1930s-40s. They weren't segregated but in the 20s they were the image of crackkker incompetence trying to organize with black people (most often attempting to organize on behalf of black people, failing to build power by embedding with and growing from the workers). They did learn lessons and course-correct, though.
Actually, we had quite a few prominent Black members since the 1920s.
Mostly the late 1920s, but sure. CPUSA still only had a few hundred black members during this period and did a poor job organizing with black workers at the time. A good book on this topic is Hammer and Hoe, where it tells the story of eventual success of Marxian organizing with and by black Americans including by CPUSA and their notorious work in Alabama.
It did not.
Read Hammer and Hoe by Robyn D. G. Kelley.
The book I just suggested to you? lol
It's not that simple as you are suggesting, especially going by the book.
I initially misread your comment, btw. My apologies.
Yes
If you've only read Black Bolshevik, Hammer and Hoe, and Settlers by Sakai you will have a warped perception of CPUSA history.
And the work in Alabama was not "notorious."
Look at figures like Claudia Jones and W. Alphaeus Hunton.
Also, Hammer and Hoe is limited in this regard and goes against CPUSA historiography, which even says that they proposed a Black Belt republic.