| | 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. | | 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.<ref>Jaques Duclos, [http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/cpusa/1945/04/0400-duclos-ondissolution.pdf ''On the Dissolution of the Communist Party of the United States,''.] Reprinted in [[William Z. Foster]] et al. ''Marxism-Leninism vs. Revisionism.'' (New York: New Century Publishers, Feb. 1946), pp. 21-35 in original.</ref> 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. | + | In April 1945, however, Jacques Duclos of the French Communist Party, formerly high in the Comintern, published a repudiation of Browderism.<ref>Jaques Duclos, [http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/cpusa/1945/04/0400-duclos-ondissolution.pdf ''On the Dissolution of the Communist Party of the United States,''.] Published in ''Cahiers du Communisme,'' April 1945. Reprinted in [[William Z. Foster]] et al. ''Marxism-Leninism vs. Revisionism.'' (New York: New Century Publishers, Feb. 1946), pp. 21-35 in original.</ref> 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. |