The American Communist Party grew more Russified rather than more American as time passed
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
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Directly supports the book’s argument that orthodox Marxism was an imported European framework ill-suited to the Black radical tradition - relevant to the reader’s goal of understanding the tradition’s trajectory.
Related
- American communism grew more Russian, not more American, over time (similarity 0.95)
- Russian domination of the Comintern rekindled rival nationalisms inside the American party. (similarity 0.81)
- The Comintern forced America’s fragmented communist factions into a federated party. (similarity 0.80)
- The 1919 American Communist movement was overwhelmingly immigrant and non-English-speaking (similarity 0.80)
- Internal divisions and compromises gutted independent Marxist theory in the American Party. (similarity 0.79)
- White American communist ideologues projected their own nationalist sensibilities onto Black struggles (similarity 0.78)