CPUSA has a lot of solid comrades here, and we should never dismiss the party outright, as it has many dedicated younger members.
However their national leadership and “old guard”, and specifically their media organs like peoplesworld, are not the best, and tend to do a lot of “democratic party strategizing.” I won’t link any posts directly, but you can do a search on here, or just look through some of kind of articles the editors of peoplesworld tend to write.
Of course no party is perfect, and many comrades are doing their best to steer the org in a revolutionary direction. They’ve also had many wins in the last few years, coming out against patsocs, and against US funding the war in Ukraine.
Thanks. I like the leadership of the CPUSA, but of course, I’m biased.
I prefer Joe Sims’ direction to the direction of John Bachtell previously and especially Sam Webb.
I really wish people would give us a chance and maybe learn our history, but people either learn about, say, Earl Browder (and assume that that’s the CPUSA in a nutshell) or they assume that the 1930s period was the height of it and that’s that.
Nobody seems to learn of our history beyond the 1930s. It sucks. There’s a lot to tell, even in the now-overrated 1930s and especially outside of that period.
Would you post / summarise some of the history in other posts? Maybe in a community where mods will take a hard line so as not to create a situation where your explanation gets derailed (perhaps subject to expected levels of questioning, etc). It can be hard for outsiders to learn this stuff.
It seems that every western communist org has some dodgy stories attached to its name. I assume most of this is intended to undermine those parties, but it’s hard to know for sure and one doesn’t really want to associate with terrible reactionaries whatever their aesthetics (this is not directed at the CPUSA, btw, about which I know very little).
CPUSA has a lot of solid comrades here, and we should never dismiss the party outright, as it has many dedicated younger members.
However their national leadership and “old guard”, and specifically their media organs like peoplesworld, are not the best, and tend to do a lot of “democratic party strategizing.” I won’t link any posts directly, but you can do a search on here, or just look through some of kind of articles the editors of peoplesworld tend to write.
Of course no party is perfect, and many comrades are doing their best to steer the org in a revolutionary direction. They’ve also had many wins in the last few years, coming out against patsocs, and against US funding the war in Ukraine.
Do you think the CPUSA is heading in the correct direction given their recent wins?
I think so.
Thanks. I like the leadership of the CPUSA, but of course, I’m biased.
I prefer Joe Sims’ direction to the direction of John Bachtell previously and especially Sam Webb.
I really wish people would give us a chance and maybe learn our history, but people either learn about, say, Earl Browder (and assume that that’s the CPUSA in a nutshell) or they assume that the 1930s period was the height of it and that’s that.
Nobody seems to learn of our history beyond the 1930s. It sucks. There’s a lot to tell, even in the now-overrated 1930s and especially outside of that period.
Would you post / summarise some of the history in other posts? Maybe in a community where mods will take a hard line so as not to create a situation where your explanation gets derailed (perhaps subject to expected levels of questioning, etc). It can be hard for outsiders to learn this stuff.
It seems that every
westerncommunist org has some dodgy stories attached to its name. I assume most of this is intended to undermine those parties, but it’s hard to know for sure and one doesn’t really want to associate with terrible reactionaries whatever their aesthetics (this is not directed at the CPUSA, btw, about which I know very little).I may, but it’s not my job and I may not have the time, but I can try.