Block, Siteadmin, SkipCaptcha, Upload, Automoderated users, delete, edit, move, nsTeam2RO, nsTeam2RW, nsTeam2_talkRO, nsTeam2_talkRW, protect, rollback, Administrators, template
295,155
edits
Changes
more details
Earl Browder was the General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] (CPUSA) from 1932 to 1945. During [[World War II]], when the United States and [[Soviet Union]] were allied fighting [[Nazi]] Germany, Browder publicly took the position that Communism and capitalism could coexist, which was the position the Soviet Union had taken during World War II. After the war, when the position of the Soviet Union had changed and the Cold War had begun, Browder was expelled from the party for his past statements.
Earl Browder was the General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] (CPUSA) from 1932 to 1945. During [[World War II]], when the United States and [[Soviet Union]] were allied fighting [[Nazi]] Germany, Browder publicly took the position that Communism and capitalism could coexist, which was the position the Soviet Union had taken during World War II.
Browder, as CPUSA General Secretary, long benefited from the dogma of the [[liberal]] and [[leftist]] intelligentsia that the CPUSA did not participate in Soviet espionage against the United States. These assertions continue, despite the presentation of substantial contrary evidence over the years by [[Elizabeth Bentley]] and others <ref>John E. Haynes, ''Red Scare or Red Menace'', Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996, p. 61. </ref><ref>Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fredrikh I. Firsov, ''The Secret World of American Communism'', New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, p. 233. </ref> the [[Venona]] cables, the [[Judith Coplon]], [[Alger Hiss]], and [[William Remington]] trials, as well as dozens of articles and books.
Browder, as CPUSA General Secretary, long benefited from the dogma of the [[liberal]] and [[leftist]] intelligentsia that the CPUSA did not participate in Soviet espionage against the United States. These assertions continue, despite the presentation of substantial contrary evidence over the years by [[Elizabeth Bentley]] and others <ref>John E. Haynes, ''Red Scare or Red Menace'', Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996, p. 61. </ref><ref>Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fredrikh I. Firsov, ''The Secret World of American Communism'', New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, p. 233. </ref> the [[Venona]] cables, the [[Judith Coplon]], [[Alger Hiss]], and [[William Remington]] trials, as well as dozens of articles and books. In the Venona cables he is known as Agent "HELMSMAN".
In 1939 Browder appointed [[Rudy Baker]] to head the CPUSA underground apparatus to replace [[J. Peters]], after the defection of [[Whittaker Chambers]]. Browder was sentenced to prison in 1940, ostensibly due to passport violations, but was released after 14 months when the US joined [[World War II]] and became an ally of the [[Soviet Union]]. Browder embraced the [[Popular Front]] tactic and led the CPUSA's tactic of expressing cautious support for the [[New Deal]] of [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] while demanding that it should go much further than it did.
In 1939 Browder appointed [[Rudy Baker]] to head the CPUSA underground apparatus to replace [[J. Peters]], after the defection of [[Whittaker Chambers]]. Browder was sentenced to prison in 1940, ostensibly due to passport violations, but was released after 14 months when the US joined [[World War II]] and became an ally of the [[Soviet Union]]. Browder embraced the [[Popular Front]] tactic and led the CPUSA's tactic of expressing cautious support for the [[New Deal]] of [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] while demanding that it should go much further than it did.
As early as May 1943, Browder cabled to Moscow U.S. armament production statistics on tanks, anti-tank guns, machine guns, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyer and merchant vessels. <ref>Venona 774, 775, and 776 New York to Moscow 26 May 1943. </ref>
As early as May 1943, Browder cabled to Moscow U.S. armament production statistics on tanks, anti-tank guns, machine guns, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyer and merchant vessels. <ref>Venona 774, 775, and 776 New York to Moscow 26 May 1943. </ref>
After the war Browder was expelled from CPUSA leadership when the Soviet Union policy shifted. His crime had been to follow Moscow's orders in 1941 and "disband" the party in a show of unity with the U.S. government. But the KGB thought his services worth keeping, and they succeeded in covertly financing him, by setting him up as a representative of Soviet publishers. Even then, that didn't work, as Browder was dropped after violating the Party Line again in favor of [[Titoism]]. Lovestone said of Browder, "There, but for an accident of geography, walks a dead man".
==References==
==References==