| − | [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA) had always received directives and funds from the [[Soviet Union]] via courier. Moscow's most effective control had been through [[Comintern]] representatives.<ref>Louis Budenz, ''Men Without Faces: The Communist Conspiracy in the USA,'' Harper and Brothers, New York, 1948, pp. 4-5, 55, 68-69, 78-81. [http://www.americandeception.com/index.php?page=usercat&catid=8&count=1 pp.15-16, 66, 79-80, 89-92 pdf]</ref> General Secretary [[Earl Browder]] from 1930 to 1945 executed [[Moscow]]'s insgtructions to steer the party from anti-Roosevelt militancy, to pro-Roosevelt [[Popular Front]], to anti-Roosevelt [[isolationism]] during the [[Hitler-Stalin pact]] and the early days of [[Lend-Lease]], and back to pro-Rooseveit war unity after the [[Soviet Union]] was attacked. | + | [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA) had always received directives and funds from the [[Soviet Union]] via courier. Moscow's most effective control had been through [[Comintern]] representatives.<ref>Louis Budenz, ''Men Without Faces: The Communist Conspiracy in the USA,'' Harper and Brothers, New York, 1948, pp. 4-5, 55, 68-69, 78-81. [http://www.americandeception.com/index.php?page=usercat&catid=8&count=1 pp.15-16, 66, 79-80, 89-92 pdf]</ref> General Secretary [[Earl Browder]] from 1930 to 1945 executed [[Moscow]]'s insgtructions to steer the party from anti-Roosevelt militancy, to pro-Roosevelt [[Popular Front]], to anti-Roosevelt [[isolationism]] during the [[Hitler-Stalin pact]] and the early days of [[Lend-Lease]], and back to pro-Rooseveit war unity after the [[Soviet Union]] was attacked. During [[World War II]] there had to be greater reliance on conditioned reflexes, prodded by ''Pravda'' or ''War and the Working Class'' or Radio Moscow. Browder developed the doctrine of indefinite collaboration with capitalism and the [[Harry Bridges]] doctrine of postwar extension of the no-strike pledge. |
| | + | The wartime coalition gave Browder the vision of an Americanized Communist Party working with other American parties to solve the urgent questions facing the Nation. To this end he began a policy of naturalizing the party, relaxing its discipline, and moderating its sectarianism. He transformed the wartime tactic of national unity into a postwar strategy and argued the possibility that progressive capitalism, to save itself, would embark on policies favorable to the workers at home and to the Soviet Union abroad. |
| | + | In April 1945, however, Jacques Duclos of the French Communist Party, formerly high in the Comintern, published a repudiation of Browderism. Publication of the attack by the ''New York World-Telegram'' panicked the CPUSA into drastic action against Browder and he was unceremoniously expelled in February 1946. |