The CPUSA

[Rigby5]

It would be interesting to actually someone try communism on a national scale, as that has never been done before.
The Bolshevik revolution was started by communists, but unfortunately they were all killed off by the foreign agents, Lenin and Stalin, before they could try implementing communism.
I would like to see what communism would look like on a national scale, since it is how every family, club, tribe, social order, Kibbutzim, Ashram, monastery, cloister, etc., work.

But a country is not a family, club, tribe, social order, Kibbutzim, Ashram, monastery, cloister, etc., work.! There are plenty of examples of failed communist countries to look at

Like which?
All the communists in the Bolshevik revolution were dead by 1920.
Trotsky survived a little longer by hiding out in Mexico, but even that did not last.
Do you realize Lenin was actually a German agent who was paid to destroy Russia in order to take them out of the war?
In no way was Lenin a Communist.
Communism by definition has to be local, communal, cooperative, collective, with equality and voluntary motivations.
A highly centralized state that allows for no popular input and is totally unequitable, is the opposite of communism.

 

[whitehall]

Actually it's a good thing that CUSA will be back on the ballot. It will siphon votes from most democrat candidates (unless they get to vote twice).

 

[Desperado]

It would be interesting to actually someone try communism on a national scale, as that has never been done before.
The Bolshevik revolution was started by communists, but unfortunately they were all killed off by the foreign agents, Lenin and Stalin, before they could try implementing communism.
I would like to see what communism would look like on a national scale, since it is how every family, club, tribe, social order, Kibbutzim, Ashram, monastery, cloister, etc., work.

But a country is not a family, club, tribe, social order, Kibbutzim, Ashram, monastery, cloister, etc., work.! There are plenty of examples of failed communist countries to look at

Like which?
All the communists in the Bolshevik revolution were dead by 1920.
Trotsky survived a little longer by hiding out in Mexico, but even that did not last.
Do you realize Lenin was actually a German agent who was paid to destroy Russia in order to take them out of the war?
In no way was Lenin a Communist.
Communism by definition has to be local, communal, cooperative, collective, with equality and voluntary motivations.
A highly centralized state that allows for no popular input and is totally unequitable, is the opposite of communism.

According to you....
Than why has history called Russia, China and Cuba communist? I suppose you will claim you are right and the historians are wrong.

 

[Crepitus]

Somebody has some competition
The Communist Party USA Plans to Begin Actively Running Candidates Again
The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) was formed on September 1, 1919, as a breakaway party from the Socialist Party of America following the success of the Russian Revolution. The CPUSA played an active role in labor unions for multiple decades and saw membership reach around 75,000 by 1938. Many communists were elected before World War Two and their most successful presidential ticket saw William Z. Foster receive 103,307 votes in the 1932 presidential election. However, following World War Two the CPUSA saw membership decline due to the Red Scare and government suppression to the point of less than 10,000 in 1957, with over 1,500 being FBI informants.

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No competition, the republican party is a shambles.