American Cultural Revolution

The **American Cultural Revolution** is a series of events taking place from 1966-1976, coinciding with the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The American Cultural Revolution was a policy agreed upon by the Union of North America and the Union of South America, with similar policies in both nations being implemented. CPNA General Secretary Earl Browder announced the cultural revolution on July 16th, 1966, declaring it necessary to expel bourgeoisie elements in society. of The American Cultural Revolution saw many political purges of reactionary elements from within the CPNA and CPSA, with thousands being expelled from their roles. Numerous city and town names across the Americas were renamed to symbolize current/former party leaders, including the nation's capital, New York, being renamed to Foster City after the first president of the UNASCR, and its largest city, Mexico City, being renamed to Browder City after its current president. The revolution also saw the rise in popularity of several music genres, including classic rock, black folk music, soul, and the re-emergence of jazz, all of which contained common proletarian elements and themes.

## Beginnings

The Communist Party of North America, in addition to the Communist Party of South America, collaborated closely with the Communist Party of China during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, led by Mao Zedong. The CPNA, led by Earl Browder, modeled its own adaptation of the Cultural Revolution, with the intent of removing all remaining bourgeois and reactionary elements of society, expelling and punishing corrupt capitalist leaders and politicians, and implementing new forms of culture with the intent of bringing class consciousness, in addition to extensive propaganda campaigns. Much of these policies implemented under Browder were duplicated in South America, and both nations shared similar cultural experiences.

On July 16th, 1966, Earl Browder spoke on national television and radio, claiming that in order to ensure that capitalism does not restore itself upon society, all traces of it were to be rooted out, beginning the American Cultural Revolution.

## Political Purges

Over 1,000 elected officials were expelled from their positions, who were previously elected and deemed as either "reactionary" or "bourgeoisie".

## Renaming of Cities, Towns, Villages, Streets, States, and Republics

Across the entirety of the Americas, tens of thousands of cities, towns, villages, streets, states, and even republics were renamed after both current and former Communist Party members. The most notable changes were renaming several republics from the Union of North America. The Northeastern Socialist Council Republic was renamed to the Fosterian SCR, in addition to its capital and second-largest city being renamed Foster City (previously New York), after the first president of the UNASCR and leader of the Pan-American Revolution, William Z. Foster. The Southern SCR was the only other republic to be renamed into the Casperian SCR, designated after Donald Casper, a former slave who led a successful African-American socialist revolt and overthrew the Carolinian Republic, eventually uniting with the Georgian Republic and later joining the USCR (later UNASCR), where Casper would continue to serve as President of the Southern SCR until his death in 1953.

In addition to renaming two republics, many other major cities were renamed. The most important ones were the following:

* Mexico City (largest city) renamed to Browder City
	+ Earl Browder opposed naming the city after him; however, it was approved by the NPA anyways
* New York City (second largest city and national capital) renamed to Foster City
* Richmond (capital of Usania) renamed to Ruthenburg after C. E. Ruthenburg, founder of the CPNA
* Tegucigalpa renamed to Aledon after José Aledon, leader of the Central American uprisings
* St. Louis renamed to Fraina after Louis C. Fraina, CPNA member
* Port-au-Prince (Haiti) renamed to Monet after Charles Monet, CPNA member

Additionally, many proposals for city name changes were submitted, but not approved. Earl Browder expressed public support for renaming Louisiana after Pierre Lavigne, due to the desire of ridding all names associated with previous monarchs or colonizers; however, it never passed. Similar results occurred for attempts to rename the Casperian states of Carolina and Georgia.