Radio Free never takes money from corporate interests, which ensures our publications are in the interest of people, not profits. Radio Free provides free and open-source tools and resources for anyone to use to help better inform their communities. Learn more and get involved at radiofree.org

Far too often, scholars have mystified the history of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Historians influenced by Cold War anticommunism saw the CPUSA as a totalitarian import that was alien to American political life. In other words, it was the connection to the Soviet Union, not any social struggles that defined the CPUSA. Revisionist historians More

The post The Movements of American Communism appeared first on CounterPunch.org.


This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Doug Enaa Greene.

Citations

[1]https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/04/the-movements-of-american-communism/[2]https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/04/the-movements-of-american-communism/[3]https://www.counterpunch.org/