Editing Collapse of CPUSA

The '''Collapse of CPUSA''' is an ongoing political crisis within the [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA) that began following the process of the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union]] and the failed [[August Coup]] in 1991. Since then, the CPUSA have fallen into factional disarray between [[Liberalism|liberal]] pro-[[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Tailism|tailists]] and [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninists]].<ref name=":0">[https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/mlp-cpusa-split.htm CPUSA breaks apart]</ref>
== Background ==
Since the beginning of [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]'s administration of the [[Soviet Union]] in 1985, the CPUSA had ''de facto'' failed to remain a [[Communism|Communist]] organization as it began to cave into the demands of the Democratic Party and continued to support the liberalized Gorbachev administration. Instead of advocating for Marxism-Leninism, the CPUSA had begun advocating for what was, effectively, [[Social Democracy|social democracy]].<ref name=":0" />
== Angela Davis's Attempted Coup ==
After the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] (USSR), [[Angela Davis]] used this as an opportunity to form a faction against the "[[Conservatism|conservative]]" leadership of [[Gus Hall]], who was pro-Soviet but anti-[[Perestroika]]. She had managed to get the support of [[Pete Seeger]], [[Jarvis Tyner]] and many others who were supposedly "loyal" to the CPUSA in the past. At the 1994 convention they staged a walkout and formed the [[Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism]] (CCDS), which was a social democratic organization which had the support of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] (DSA) but also by foreign social democratic parties such as the newly founded German Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (PDS), the revisionist [[South African Communist Party]] (SACP) and [[Lula]]'s [[Workers' Party]] (PT) of [[Brazil]].<ref>[https://www.c-span.org/video/?59374-1/struggle-democratic-socialism Struggle for Democratic Socialism]</ref>
== Liberalization of CPUSA ==
After the CCDS had already split, many people remained inside the CPUSA as supporters of Davis even after she had split. One of those people was Sam Webb, who remained a close associate of Gus Hall while working behind his back. When Gus Hall Died in 2000, Sam Webb took over the party, purging any pro soviet and Marxist-Leninist trace of the party.

In the years following the coup, the CPUSA became a complete puppet of the Democratic Party as it betrayed the [[proletariat]] and advocated for electing Democrat candidates across the [[United States]]. Many members fo CPUSA criticized this blatant liberalization of the party, however few actually left the party or rebelled against the leadership in the 1992-2022 time period.<ref> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o_LjizHDno '''Communist Party USA is dropping pretense of Leninism'''] </ref>
== CPUSA 2036 ==
=== Infrared and MAGA Communism ===
In 2022, opposing the liberalization of CPUSA, a Marxist-Leninist organization in the United States known as [[Infrared]] began pushing for #[[CPUSA 2036|CPUSA2036]]. The goal of CPUSA 2036 as a slogan was to infiltrate, reclaim, and deliberalize the CPUSA and turn it into the [[Vanguardism|vanguard party]] of a [[Second American Revolution]] against the [[bourgeoisie]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SBHivQ_QSo The Meaning of CPUSA 2036 | Infrared Show ft. CD]</ref>

A few months into the CPUSA 2036 movement, a new concept of #[[MAGA Communism|MAGACommunism]] began to develop within Infrared and its supporters. MAGA Communism is, now, an adaption of the [[mass line]] to the United States where the American proletariat and [[peasantry]] of all banners come together and fight for common prosperity, common equality, and liberty from [[fascism]]. These groups that would unite include [[Agriculture|farmers]], the [[2022 railroad strikes in the United States|railroad strikers]], and the [[Make America Great Again]] (MAGA) movement.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf9ucXmA9gE When a Communist Attends a Trump Rally...]</ref>
=== Party split ===
In August, 2022, a split occurred in the [[Communist Party of South New Hampshire]] (CPSNH) when members of the CPUSA from [[New Hampshire]] split from the main party and formed their own [[CPUSA New Hampshire]] (CPUSANH) as a "rogue" branch of the party that advocated for both #CPUSA2036 and #MAGACommunism.<ref>[https://twitter.com/CPUSA_NH CPUSA New Hampshire]</ref> This split remained isolated in New Hampshire for until October, 2022, when more CPUSA branches split between pro-Democrat and "rogue" factions all across the country. It finally came to ahead when, on October 19, 2022, a new organization calling itself the CPUSA emerged as separate from the liberalized one,<ref>[https://twitter.com/CPUSA_2036 Communist Party USA]</ref> officially formalizing a split in the party. The new anti-Democrat CPUSA created a website on October 21, 2022,<ref>[https://www.cpusa2036.org/ COMMUNIST PARTY USA]</ref> and began to come into conflict with the pro-liberal branches.
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