Du Bois rejected the CPUSA as ignorant of Black American history

Evidence

The task that I have recently been setting myself is to blunt the wedge the Communist party is driving into our group … and I do this, not because of any enmity or fear or essential disagreement with the Communists. If I were in Russia, I should be an enthusiastic Communist. If the Communist party in the United States had the leadership and knowledge which our situation calls for, I certainly should join it; but it is today ignorant of fact and history and the American scene and is trying to over-emphasize the truth that the natural leaders of the colored people, the educated and trained classes have had goals and interests different from the mass of Negroes. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 918

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader theme of Black leadership’s fraught relationship with the American Communist Party, and later tensions between Black radicals and the CP.