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Titolo: Girano su questo NG degli ignoranti assoluti con una buffa arroganza: uno crede in USA sia vietato il Partito Comunista!!!!

SE C'E' QUALCUN ALTRO CHE CREDE QUESTO, si sbaglia.
 
The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a
Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States.
For approximately the first half of the 20th century it was the largest and
most widely influential communist party in the country, and played a
defining role in the U.S. labor movement from the 1920s through the 1940s,
founding most of the country's major industrial unions (which would later
implement the Smith Act) and pursuing intense anti-racist activity in
workplaces and city communities throughout this first part of its existence.
Simultaneously the CPUSA survived the Palmer Raids, the first Red Scare, and
many similar attempts at suppression of communist activity by the Government
of the United States through the end of World War II. By August 1919, only
months after its founding, the CPUSA had 60,000 members, including
anarchists and other radical leftists, while the more moderate Socialist
Party of America had only 40,000.
By the 1950s, however, the combined effects of the second Red Scare,
McCarthyism, the Secret Speech, and the Cold War began to break apart the
party's internal structure and confidence. U.S. Government prosecution
efforts were aided by the party's membership in the Comintern because it
cast the Party not only as subversive, but also as a "foreign" agent.
Members who did not end up in prison for party activities tended either to
disappear quietly from its ranks or to adopt more moderate political
positions that were at odds with the CPUSA's party line. By 1957, membership
had dwindled to less than 10,000.
Effectively eliminated as a revolutionary opposition force, the party
transformed its militant revolutionary line into a more evolutionary one,
participating with more vigor in the U.S. electoral system and advocating
"peaceful coexistence," a shift which by the early 1960s led to dozens of
angry breakaways by more militant CP members who saw them as conciliatory
"sellout" moves. This New Left continued to follow the idea of armed class
war and generally turned to Mao Zedong for inspiration. The Soviet invasion
of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 led to further disillusionment and
defections. Meanwhile, the major leaders of the American Civil Rights
Movement were very careful to keep communists at arm's length for fear of
also being branded communist — policies that isolated the CPUSA even
further.
With continued erosion of what little mass support remained, and very little
if any continued influence in mainstream politics, in the late 1980s the
party finally became estranged even from the leadership of the Soviet Union
itself. Its opposition to Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika meant the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union cut off its support of the CPUSA in
1989. The party languished without state support from such a major entity.
In 1991, the party held its convention and tried to resolve the issue of
whether the collapse of the Soviet Union should mean that the Party reject
Leninism. A Party majority reasserted its classic Marxist-Leninist line, and
the faction urging social democracy left and established itself as the
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
The CPUSA has never regained the influence it wielded before the McCarthy
period, and no longer espouses the ideology of its earlier days. Unlike
similar groups in most parts of Europe, the CPUSA exercises no power within
the U.S. government.
Although still proclaiming themselves advocates of a socialist revolution,
the party today calls for a "peaceful transition to socialism" in the U.S.
"wherever possible" and its constitution makes "advocacy of … force and
violence or terrorism" a reason for expulsion from the party.[1]
The CP continues to exist as an organization, today under the leadership of
Sam Webb, who asserts that the number of registered members has climbed to
over 15,000.[2] The CPUSA is based in New York City, its newspaper is the
People's Weekly World, and its monthly magazine is Political Affairs
Magazine. The Party's stated goal is to achieve a free, prosperous, and
peaceful society free of racism, sexism, homophobia, and exploitation, in
which all people have the opportunity to develop to their fullest potential.
Members from Gus Hall's period still remain within the party's ranks.
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Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States.
Fuck 'em.