> On Nov 11, 2024, at 7:03 PM, gojko rakic via groups.io
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> My comment is more focused on the fact that those who promote the Leninist
> model of organization do not understand that this model may have suited the
> conditions of illegality, but it does not fit the conditions where political
> activity is free.
It was the Comintern "Leninists" who urged the underground Communist Party of
America (CPA) to become a public organization in 1921. The US communists were
split until the Third Congress of the Communist International: The US party's
foreign-language sections forming the backbone of the CPA and insisted on
underground operation; the other faction, the Communist Labor Party (CLP), was
made up mostly of native-born socialists who wanted to continue the tradition
of the Socialist Party of America of open labor-union organizing and election
campaigning. The "Leninist" leadership of the Comintern agreed with the CLP
faction in 1921 and helped the fledgling US party through influence and
persuasion, according to James Cannon, a leader of the CLP.
Seven years later, in 1928, the Comintern unilaterally expelled the two
factions that made up the party leadership, along with most of the party
experience, because the leaders backed Trotsky or Bukharin rather than Stalin.
Mark
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