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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> | 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 == | == 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, | 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.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
== Angela Davis's Attempted Coup == | == Angela Davis's Attempted Coup == | ||
After the fall of the | After the fall of the USSR, Angela Davis used this as an opportunity to form a faction against the "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 but also by foreign social democratic parties such as the newly founded Die Linke, the revisionist South African Communist Party (SACP) and Lula's Workers Party (PT) of Brazil. https://www.c-span.org/video/?59374-1/struggle-democratic-socialism | ||
== Liberalization of CPUSA == | == Liberalization of CPUSA == | ||
After the CCDS had already split, | After the CCDS had already split, some people remained 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> [http://savethecpusa.blogspot.com/ Save the CPUSA] </ref> | 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> [http://savethecpusa.blogspot.com/ Save the CPUSA] </ref> | ||