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Communist Party of the United States of America

Abbreviation CPUSA
Presidium National Convention
Co-chairs Joe Sims
Rossana Cambron
Founded September 1, 1919
Headquarters 235 W 23rd St, New York, New York 10011, Manhattan, New York
Newspaper People's World
Youth wing Young Communist League
Political orientation Revisionism
Social democracy
Reformism
Opportunism
Dengism
Browderism (historically)
Khrushchevism (historically)
Slogan "People and Planet Before Profits"
Website
https://www.cpusa.org/

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is a revisionist, opportunist, and reformist political party in the United States. The party has endorsed the neoliberal Democrats and the bourgeois democratic political system in the United States[1] and its leadership rejects and distorts fundamental Marxist principles.[2] The CPUSA has expressed support for revisionist states such as the PRC and Cuba.[3][4]

In a historical context, the Communist Party USA has been under revisionist domination since the period of Earl Browder's leadership in the early 1940s when he adopted a social chauvinist line. Revisionist control continued under Gus Hall, in which the party aligned with Soviet revisionism and Khrushchevism.[5]

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Communist Party USA candidates for president and vice president
Year President Vice President Votes Percent Name
1924 File:William Z. Foster, cropped.PNG
William Z. Foster
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Benjamin Gitlow
38,669 0.1% Workers Party of America
1928 File:William Z. Foster, cropped.PNG
William Z. Foster
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Benjamin Gitlow
48,551 0.1% Workers (Communist)
Party of America
1932 File:William Z. Foster, cropped.PNG
William Z. Foster
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James W. Ford

103,307 0.3% Communist Party USA
1936
Earl Browder
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James W. Ford

79,315 0.2%
1940 Error creating thumbnail:
Earl Browder
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James W. Ford

48,557 0.1%
1948
No candidate;
endorsed Henry Wallace

No candidate;
endorsed Glen H. Taylor
N/A
1952 Error creating thumbnail:
No candidate;
endorsed Vincent Hallinan
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No candidate;
endorsed Charlotta Bass
1968 File:Charlene Mitchell.jpg
Charlene Mitchell
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Michael Zagarell
1,077 nil%
1972 File:Angela Davis urges - declare your independence - vote for Hall and Tyner LCCN2016648082 (Gus Hall.jpg
Gus Hall
File:Jarvis Tyner.jpg
Jarvis Tyner
25,597 nil%
1976 File:Angela Davis urges - declare your independence - vote for Hall and Tyner LCCN2016648082 (Gus Hall.jpg
Gus Hall
File:Jarvis Tyner.jpg
Jarvis Tyner
58,709 0.1%
1980 File:Angela Davis urges - declare your independence - vote for Hall and Tyner LCCN2016648082 (Gus Hall.jpg
Gus Hall
File:Angela Davis, 1974.jpg
Angela Davis
44,933 0.1%
1984 File:Angela Davis urges - declare your independence - vote for Hall and Tyner LCCN2016648082 (Gus Hall.jpg
Gus Hall
File:Angela Davis, 1974.jpg
Angela Davis
36,386 nil%

See also

References

  1. Cameron Orr (November 8, 2016). "Defeating Trump: A strategy for uniting progressive forces". cpusa.org. Retrieved August 18, 2024.
  2. Joe Sims (August 5, 2008). "Ten Worst and Best Ideas of Marxism". Political Affairs. Retrieved August 18, 2024.
  3. Xinhua (April 25, 2018). "Marxism a vibrant philosophical outlook, says CPUSA leader", "Fraternal Ties With CPC". cpusa.org. Retrieved August 18, 2024.
  4. Resolutions Committee (May 31, 2024). "32nd National Convention CPUSA resolutions", "Cuba solidarity". cpusa.org. Retrieved August 18, 2024.
  5. Gus Hall (1969). International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties. Peace and Socialism Publishers. Available on the Marxists Internet Archive.