Talk:Communist Party USA/Archive 3

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Archive 3

Legislative Control Section

For everyone who wants to add a legislative control section in the infobox, please refrain from doing so as they don't run candidates for federal or state elections and though they don't endorse Democratic candidates, they do support them. Yes, they are a political party and most parties have a legislative control section this is one of the exceptions, similar to the NSM. If a CPUSA member happens to get elected someone then feel free to add the section back in, but for now, leave it out to keep the article somewhat uncluttered.

What about the Peace and Freedom Party? As small as that party is, the article still has that section. Why shouldn't it be the same here? VeenM64 (talk) 01:30, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

The fact that another article has something is no reason this article should. But common sense should be used. The Conservative Party of Canada article includes national seats but not provincial or local ones because the party only contests national elections. The Vermont Progressive Party only shows Vermont standings because it does not contest national elections. TFD (talk) 01:46, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Crimson??????

Someone please show me any credible source EVER published which says that the Communist Party's color is "crimson" and not RED. This shouldn't even be up for discussion, absolutely ridiculous. Mundopopular (talk) 03:45, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Espionage and Funding in the LEAD

Why do you all have such a hard on over putting this in the LEAD? Hoipolloiboyohboy (talk) 14:31, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

A article said a member of the CPUSA, has gained a local seat, for the first time

There's a article said a Native American communist member, has successfully won and topped a Non-Partisan president?

Here's the source "Native American communist topples incumbent council president in Wisconsin town" Chad The Goatman (talk) 00:15, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Membership

The source cited for the membership numbers says "in the past few years close to 5,000 people have joined the CPUSA." This implies a previous membership nucleus, so the total must be more than 5,000. This is basic stuff. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.127.180.252 (talk) 02:50, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

I hope it isn’t too much more. Can you find a real number??2600:1700:EDC0:3E80:807A:EA26:6D59:5A61 (talk) 23:35, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

I have been WP:BOLD and removed the figure + citation. The cited article does not refer to numbers of party members in total; it only states, "34 Party members from across the country called a list totaling 4,767 new members" (emphasis added). All that the citation can be used to reference is an increase in membership over the past five years. --Hazhk (talk) 01:00, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

I do not think policy allows us to estimate the current membership, per synthesis and also because self-reporting of party membership is not reliable unless validated by reliable secondary sources. Of course we can put in the article what the sources say and let readers make their own estimates. TFD (talk) 07:08, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

@124.127.180.252 Maybe this isn't how things are done, but from what I gather reading up People's World articles where they mention growth, there's about 10k members in right now. As one source from 2017 puts the membership at 5k, then another source from 2020 puts it at 2.5k above that, and an article from 2021 further puts it up another 3k. So that would be around 10 and a half thousand dues-paying members. Wegaan (talk) 03:33, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Replacing “Marxism Leninism” with “American Marxism” on this page.

I changed the term “Marxism-Leninism” under “ideology” to “American Marxism” for a reason. The term was first coined by Mark Levin in his 2021 book “American Marxism”. My eagerness to implement this term is without any political bias and purely with understanding the actions and ideas of said parties and the correlation with Levin’s concept which I highly agree with. This term is a term that can be used to describe the current ruling ideology of these parties and the current political environment on the western left and is a term that correctly describes the uniqueness of this ideology as opposed to others that may be similar, such as Marxism-Leninism or traditional Marxism. The ideas and methods of this party alone, are very unique and exceptional from other communist parties around the world. Currently it (coined by they themselves) is described as “Bill of Rights Socialism” being exclusive to their party. Described as an idea of the co existence between the U.S Bill of Rights and Far-Left views. However this term only describes a fraction of the current philosophy of American left wing parties in today’s age, American Marxism describes the uniqueness & structure in this philosophy and I truly think it has a place on this site and on this page. Please acknowledge this and take the steps to implement the term on this site and take the steps to implement this ideology into our studies. Terms such as “Democratic Socialism” or “Social Democracy” describe only what is a hypothetical nutshell of what these philosophies may result as, and there are only so many separate terms that can describe the agenda that many left wing American parties are pushing. Terms that may describe this concept may include “social anarchism”, “eco socialism”, “liberalism”, “corporatism”, “left wing nationalism”, “wokeism” (unofficial term), I could go on. But these all have collectively combined into one movement, and the ideology itself can be described as “American Marxism”. I suggest doing some digging into the book yourselves before disregarding this, and I also suggest we document this term onto Wikipedia.org. I want this message fully acknowledged and I will keep pushing implementation on this term as it is crucial to expanding the site. JSPolitic (talk) 01:13, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

@JSPolitic I would advise against using a book like American Marxism to make sweeping claims about not just this Communist Party, which was not very much investigated in the book anyway, but the 'Left' in general, especially since this article isn't about Leftism in general, it's about a rather specific and fringe leftist party in America.

The reason I advise against trying to implement the term 'American Marxism' into this article and the website at large is because the text it was derived from, and thusly the meaning it has taken on, is indeed very much biased and uninformed about communism in general, let alone leftism as a whole. While you may have suggested this in good faith and did not intend to project any political bias, the author unfortunately did and very much so. 'American Marxism' as their ideology doesn't fit. if anything, we'd probably call it 'American Marxism-Leninism', as the second part of that phrase is more important than you may have thought.

While the Communist Party USA does, of course, have elements in its political program which are unique to the U.S., this isn't itself unique to the CPUSA. Every Communist Party in every nation would logically have to tailor its version of Socialism and Communism to fit their respective nations and cultures; that is just a better way to run a party and government than not doing that. However, since the CPUSA hasn't really endorsed the phrase "American Marxism" outside a few instances of support for something called 'Patriotic Socialism,' and since the phrase and book started with very biased political implications, not just against it but the left as a whole, this is not a good phrase to use as the CPUSA's official ideology.

Also, what you refer to as 'American Marxism,' is itself a misrepresentation of the actual American left and American Marxists, at least in my personal experience. The communists often lend their support to other leftist causes in the nations they reside, even international support. This isn't as unique to America as one would think and another reason why the phrase 'American Marxism' doesn't really work. The Left in America tends to be more splintered than outwardly appears. Wegaan (talk) 03:54, 6 April 2022 (UTC)