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[[Image:Earl Browder.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Earl Browder speaking at a town hall event in New York City, 1939]]

[[Image:Earl Browder.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Earl Browder speaking at a town hall event in New York City, 1939]]

'''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 was removed from leadership in 1945 for [[deviationism]].

'''Earl Browder''' (May 20, 1891 - June 27, 1973) 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 was removed from leadership in 1945 for [[deviationism]].

 

==Complicity in Soviet espionage and subversion==

==Complicity in Soviet espionage and subversion==

In a speech delivered on January 17, 1949, which was reprinted as a pamphlet entitled ''Chinese Lessons for American Marxists,'' Browder points to this distinctiveness of Chinese Communist Party theory, its “exceptionalism” as the reason for its success. He quotes from several of [[Anna Louise Strong]]’s articles in support of his thesis that Mao Tse-tung’s policy has been to develop a particular line for Chinese Communism, to "China-ise Marxism and Leninism." (Page 9.) Browder quotes extensively from [http://openlibrary.org/b/OL16335649M/thought_of_Mao_Tse-Tung ''The Thought of Mao-Tse-tung''] by Anna Louise Strong. Browder was purged for just such an exceptionalist approach in the United States.<ref>Jack Brad, [http://www.workersliberty.org/system/files/wl3-24.pdf ''How Mao Conquered China,''] Edited by Hal Draper. Compilation originally published in ''Labor Action'' between September 1948 and October 1949. Reprinted in ''Workers Liberty'' Volume 3 No. 24, October 2009, p. 8 (pdf). Retrieved from WorkersLiberty.org February 23, 2010.</ref>

In a speech delivered on January 17, 1949, which was reprinted as a pamphlet entitled ''Chinese Lessons for American Marxists,'' Browder points to this distinctiveness of Chinese Communist Party theory, its “exceptionalism” as the reason for its success. He quotes from several of [[Anna Louise Strong]]’s articles in support of his thesis that Mao Tse-tung’s policy has been to develop a particular line for Chinese Communism, to "China-ise Marxism and Leninism." (Page 9.) Browder quotes extensively from [http://openlibrary.org/b/OL16335649M/thought_of_Mao_Tse-Tung ''The Thought of Mao-Tse-tung''] by Anna Louise Strong. Browder was purged for just such an exceptionalist approach in the United States.<ref>Jack Brad, [http://www.workersliberty.org/system/files/wl3-24.pdf ''How Mao Conquered China,''] Edited by Hal Draper. Compilation originally published in ''Labor Action'' between September 1948 and October 1949. Reprinted in ''Workers Liberty'' Volume 3 No. 24, October 2009, p. 8 (pdf). Retrieved from WorkersLiberty.org February 23, 2010.</ref>

==See also==

==See also==