It’s Still the Soviet Party

The Communist Party USA is down in membership, torn by dissension, and beset by the ideological long knives of its leaders. The proliferation of Party fronts has slowed down. The Jefferson School (of subversive sciences) has shut its doors. The Daily Worker occasionally paints Khrushchev with his halo askew.

These facts, the result of the downgrading of Stalin and the Soviet terror in the satellites, are all very true. But they do not warrant the complacent conclusions of the pundits that the Communist Party, as an arm of the Kremlin and a force for evil, is ready for the undertaker. The CPUSA is far from dead. Despite the febrile rhetoric of its current controversies, disciplined activity still continues where it really counts—in the under-ground apparatus, in the Party’s industrial concentrations, and on the infiltration front.

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Ralph de Toledano

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The Communist Party USA is down in membership, torn by dissension, and beset by the ideological long knives of its leaders. The proliferation of Party fronts has slowed down. The Jefferson School (of subversive sciences) has shut its doors. The Daily Worker occasionally paints Khrushchev with his halo askew.

These facts, the result of the downgrading of Stalin and the Soviet terror in the satellites, are all very true. But they do not warrant the complacent conclusions of the pundits that the Communist Party, as an arm of the Kremlin and a force for evil, is ready for the undertaker. The CPUSA is far from dead. Despite the febrile rhetoric of its current controversies, disciplined activity still continues where it really counts—in the under-ground apparatus, in the Party’s industrial concentrations, and on the infiltration front.