my hypothesis is that it's people who, instead of realizing that the propaganda about socialists and Communist States is highly ideologically motivated and misleading, instead thought that it was extremely cool and that we should be doing the black book of communism unironically.

They aren't a real org they are a psyop. Its a 2 pronged attack on Communism. They scare progressive liberals into thinking Communism is reactionary patriarchy and send them back to the democrat party. Meanwhile they are also mobilizing the disillusioned conservative liberals who aren't already neo-nazis into a party so that when the nazis do coalesce into a single party the acp can ally with them.

To dupe questioning libs who might be moving leftwards: they'll maybe realize 'everything I've been taught about communism through government public education and oligarch owned media is wrong I'll check out what Communists actually have to say' without knowing leftist history in the US the 'American Communist Party' may seem to them like the obvious place to look, when they look inside and see reactionary rightism it'll scare them back into acceptable liberalism within the Overton Window

Fascists have a history of appealing to the same working class discontent that communists do, then pivoting into maintaining capital instead of challenging its control. They could be feds, they could be out to personally enrich themselves, or they could be like the nazis of old. Or some mixture of it.

They probably have some online followers who are sincere and misguided, but the people running the clownshow are obviously not of honest intention. Else they wouldn't be doing the repeated attempted takeovers of english speaking "left" spaces online. You don't build left power by trying to wreck what little there is of an online western left.

Keep in mind that in the US, the right is already the dominant political power by far. It's not a power struggle between left and right in the way that the democrat/republican dynamic makes it seem. The left exists, but not really in a capacity where it is a distinct political power bloc that can force the right to make concessions. So part of the right's strategy is going to be trying to wreck solidarity/buildup of the left in whatever way they can think of and if that means trying to throw in a wrench into rising sympathy for communism, of course they'll try that.

Because capitalists try to take support away from communism by creating a fake communist party which subtly deradicalises people

They are social conservatives who recognise the wins of socialist states and who may have been infiltrated/tailing intelligence services; however we don't need to know the latter to reject their reactionary and chauvinist perspectives. If nazbols can be a thing so can the ACP be "organically" developed in the most brutal nation known to humanity.

The blatant contradiction generates more controversy which is free advertising.

It’s the same as nazbols, not really a serious political project, mixed with US anti establishment vibes

I think, if something doesn't appear to make sense under your current assumptions, sometimes it's because you need to examine some of your preconceptions.

they are feds

Typically they manifest as socialists who do not believe in imperialism as the primary contradiction but instead of taking a left-dev stance via permanent revolution, demsoc or anarchism they have seemingly adopted chauvinism as a main principle while taking a right-dev reactionary stance on social murder, poverty, immigration and the reasoning behind contradictions in the West vs the third world.

They can be a bit to the right of most right-devs you'll meet, some going as far to praise the confederacy, the history of segregation or are just openly racist. They also co-opt fascist aesthetics.

There is also the phenomenon of the LaRouche movement, from Lyndon LaRouche, who was an agrarian organizer with left characteristics, before descending into madness.

I heard why the A"C"P was and how bad they were from an S4A video. Going over shitty pan-US Communist parties is just one of the reasons why I personally want to work within a smaller area within the United States.

an attempt to fool people into further believing in horseshoe theory?