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 liberal pro-Democrat tailists and Marxist-Leninists.[1]
Background
Since the beginning of Mikhail Gorbachev's administration of the Soviet Union in 1985, the CPUSA had de facto failed to remain a 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, state capitalism.[1]
Gus Hall's coup
At the 25th National Convention of the CPUSA held in December, 1991, in Cleveland, a revisionist named Gus Hall managed to take total control of the CPUSA in a coup. The coup had been planned for some time, with Gus Hall and his supporters having managed to successfully infiltrate over 40% of the CPUSA leadership. It started when his supporters seized the People’s Weekly World and then used their influence in the party to purge all opposition members. They then established the social democratic Committees of Correspondence, now known as the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism today.[1]
Liberalization of CPUSA
After Gus Hall's successful coup in the CPUSA, the party descended very quickly into chaos. The CPUSA almost completely collapsed, with parts of the organization disintegrating into the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and other parts completely caving into the Democratic Party.[1] Despite this crisis, the CPUSA managed to cling onto life and reogranized into a revived organization after the chaos cleared up.
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.[2]
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 #CPUSA2036. The goal of CPUSA 2036 as a slogan was to infiltrate, reclaim, and deliberalize the CPUSA and turn it into the vanguard party of a Second American Revolution against the bourgeoisie.[3]
A few months into the CPUSA 2036 movement, a new concept of #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 farmers, the railroad strikers, and the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.[4]
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.[5] 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,[6] officially formalizing a split in the party. The new anti-Democrat CPUSA created a website on October 21, 2022,[7] and began to come into conflict with the pro-liberal branches.