
100 Years of American Communism
The Communist Party USA, which turned 100 this year, has left behind a complicated legacy, filled with great victories and terrible blunders.
Michael Goldfield is an independent scholar and activist, currently a fellow at the Fraser Center for the Study of Workplace issues at Wayne State University. Material in this essay is taken from his forthcoming book, The Southern Key, Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s.
The Communist Party USA, which turned 100 this year, has left behind a complicated legacy, filled with great victories and terrible blunders.