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This category lists people who have, at one time or another, been active members of a communist party, or have declared themselves to be "communist". It should not be taken for granted that inclusion in this category implies that figures remained their whole life or continue to be communists.
The Communist Party of the USA was founded in 1919, out of two groups who broke from the Socialist Party of America when it refused to join the Comintern. [1] The original core of the CP believed that the triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia meant that the revolution was at hand in the West as well.
The military success of the Red Army in Central and Eastern Europe led to a consolidation of power in communist hands. In some cases, such as Czechoslovakia, this led to enthusiastic support for socialism inspired by the Communist Party and a Social Democratic Party willing to fuse. In other cases, such as Poland or Hungary, the fusion of the ...
In the Cold War's bi-polar world, socialists were forced to choose between supporting the liberal democratic camp (as with America's "Non-Communist Left" or the Atlanticists in the British Labour Party), support the opposing camp led by Moscow (as with the Communist movement), or seek an independent path (as with the Non-Aligned Movement).
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
According to a November 2017 YouGov poll, a majority of Americans aged 21 to 29 prefer socialism to capitalism and believe that the American economic system is working against them. [277] In the same month, 15 members of the DSA were elected to various local and state governmental positions around the country in the 2017 elections. [278]
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is an American political party with a communist platform that was founded in 1919 and reconstituted in 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. [1] [2] Its history is deeply rooted in the history of the American labor movement as it played critical roles in the earliest struggles to organize American workers into unions, in leadership of labor strikes, [3] as well as ...
Democracy and prosperity largely went together in the 1920s. Economic disaster led to a distrust in the effectiveness of democracy and its collapse in much of Europe and Latin America, including the Baltic and Balkan countries, Poland, Spain, and Portugal. Powerful expansionary anti-democratic regimes emerged in Italy, Japan, and Germany. [35]