Communists in the USA

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I found this interesting:

The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA),[9] is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.

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By August 1919, only months after its founding, the Communist Party claimed to have 50,000 to 60,000 members. Its members also included anarchists and other radical leftists. At the time, the older and more moderate Socialist Party of America, suffering from criminal prosecutions for its antiwar stance during World War I, had declined to 40,000 members. The sections of the Communist Party’s International Workers Order (IWO) organized for communism around linguistic and ethnic lines, providing mutual aid and tailoring cultural activities to an IWO membership that peaked at 200,000 at its height.

I knew communism was rather popular in the 1920s. I just didn’t know how popular.

As of 2024 membership was about 15,000. But it is claimed:

Democrats’ defeat in November has actually caused defections of some left wing voters to alternative parties like Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

CPUSA membership has more than quadrupled in the past decade, growing from ~5,000 members in 2017 to probably 20,000 in early 2025.

And CPUSA reported a surge of membership applications after the ’24 elections due to left wing disillusionment with the failing Democrat Party.

Depending on your definition of a communist, CPUSA numbers don’t represent the true number of communists in this country. The Democrats have moved leftward enough to incorporate large numbers of them.

I have to wonder, percentage wise, are there more communists in the country now than in the 1920s?

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4 thoughts on “Communists in the USA”

  1. Old style communists were perfectly sane compared to the modern version.

  2. When I was a young man when you voted in the national elections there was always a candidate for the Communist Party on the ballot. Sometime in the late 80’s you no longer saw a candidate for the Communists on the ballot. When they were asked why they no longer ran a candidate their spokesman said it wasn’t necessary…because the Democratic Party had adopted ALL the platforms and ideas that the Communist Party sought to implement.

    For the thick heads out there….the Democrat Party IS the Communist Party now. And has been for several decades.

  3. What is funny about these retrospective looks back at 20th C Communism is that they almost never talk about who it was who joined them and what sort of person the leadership was, ethnically speaking. It explains a no small number of historical events and datapoints.

  4. “I have to wonder, percentage wise, are there more communists in the country now than in the 1920s?”
    Well, there certainly is more people brainwashed into thinking like communists do.
    They just can’t/won’t admit that’s what has been done to them.
    Didn’t Harris just get 50-60 million votes?
    But everyone knows communism is bad. So they just give it a different handle and “move-on.org/BLM/transtifa” on to the next bullshit communist bullshit.
    As for the actual in your face/for the cause communists, in America?
    Probably ain’t a couple 1,000.
    Impale a few of them. The rest will self-deport in a hurry.
    No matter, we white supremist want-to-be Idaho nazis have them way out numbered.

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