Not quite. The Communists in the 30’s entered the DP with the intent of building their own independent organization. Unlike the Trotskyists in the US, France, and Britain who at the same time liquidated their organizations into the SP, SFIO, and ILP respectively, the CP never dissolved into the DP. This is intended as clarification, not as judgement since the circumstances of these parties has to be to taken into account.
> On Mar 1, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3/1/16 1:21 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: >> At the high tide of such engagement, why didn’t Debs’ Socialists or the >> Communists in the 30’s supplant the Democrats as the mass party favoured >> by the trade unions and social movements? > > Well, the Communists had no intention of supplanting the Democrats. They > were for all practical purposes a wing of the Democratic Party. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
