American communism grew more Russian, not more American, over time

Evidence

In the late 1930s, Gitlow, one of the founding members of the American Communist movement and a “Communist candidate for Vice-President of the United States in 1924 and 1928,” would write: “The determination of the Russian Federation to control the movement out of Russian nationalist considerations certainly characterized its early phases. When better contact was established with Soviet Russia and the Communist International, the Russian heritage was not cast off, the Party did not become more American, but instead more Russian.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2229