What Is The CPUSA?

Founded in 1919 right after the catastrophic events of World War I, the Communist Party of the United States of America(CPUSA) was the runner up to be one of America’s growing political factions. Although outlawed by president Dwight D. Eisenhower under the Communist Control Act of 1954 some 35 years later, it still became a rising competitor to America’s predominant dual party(Republican/Democrats)system and it’s idealistic capitalist system as well. By definition and by its latin root communis meaning to share, communism is the theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state in which this originally came. In the conceptuality
In addition to that it also showed how most of the burden of these relations were placed upon the proletariat(The laboring class). With this in mind, looking at the African American population in America and the status in which the population was placed under it became noticeable that African Americans were an essential part of the CPUSA growth. According to the CPUSA in reference to Karl Marx’s Capital, it stated “Labor cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.” The influence made by the quotation inspired many African Americans because it showed that they were part of the class hierarchy just under the thumb of discrimination. As a result, many appealed to ideology and increased the CPUSA numbers, especially during the times of civil right movements. One noticeable group of African Americans known as the Black Panther Party for self defense also known as the Black Panther Party who was an African American revolutionary organization whose purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect the people from act of police brutality greatly put support in the CPUSA for its promises of equality and social
Events such as the Red Scare of the 1920’s ,World War II(1940-1945),the Red Scare of the 1950’s and the involvement of the United States in the Cold War enhanced ideas against CPUSA. Starting off with the Red Scare of the 1920’s, the fear of immigrants and migrants from eastern and southern Europe that embraced socialist and communist lifestyles caught the eye of many Americans and the criticism of this in American society became alarming. Following that was the alliance with Russia in World War II which ended badly resulting in the stalemate of relations between that of the Soviet Union and the United States. Although the CPUSA was politically active in the involvement of many citizens with job losses during the hardships of the Great Depression by advocating programs of employment such as industrial unions the movement against communism and socialism still rose. Anti-Soviet sentiments was on the rise with the start of the Cold War. In correlation, the CPUSA was repeatedly attacked and prone to the Mccarthyism of the decade. With that, it marked the end of the stronghold of the CPUSA as a competitor of the federal government and became nearly