On the Committee to Reconstitute CPUSA

 

On the Committee to Reconstitute CPUSA

By: Ivet.J

21/10/2025

Preface

I originally wrote this for the Organization for a Revolutionary Communist Party - USA (The American branch of the MSC). Therefore its solutions and conclusions are primarily applicable to America, however  it does hold lessons applicable internationally.

The Current Communist Party USA

The modern CPUSA is an extremely reformist, Browderite and Khrushchevite revisionist organization in the USA. Although it started as a legitimate Marxist-Leninist party, it fell deep into revisionism, anti-Stalinism, social-democracy and reformism with the leadership of Earl Browder in the 1940s. They have continued this course. The organization is now unfit to represent the proletariat, they have made this clear such as in their statement on ICE and the government shut down. It read "Shut down ICE, not the government!" this is a clear showing of their social-democrat tendencies and reformism.

Who were the Red Guards USA?

The Red Guards were a decentralized organization founded in 2015 in Austin, Texas operated in Austin, Los Angeles,  Kansas City, Tampa, Charlotte and Houston which follow Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.  They had many successes and many failures in organizing. Their primary mistake was to attack local DSA and PSL meetings (Attacking the PSL meetings was very much justified as the said PSL meeting had been protecting a pedophile. The Democratic Socialists of America attack was more erroneous). Unfortunately the only thing this accomplished was a decrease in public opinion of the revolutionary struggle and controversies that led to the collapse of the Red Guards. The organization fully collapsed and reformed into the Committee to Reconstitute CPUSA after the Austin and LA branches were dissolved in 2019.

The strategy of the Committee to Reconstitute CPUSA

The initial strategy of the CR-CPUSA was to "reform" the current CPUSA under Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, this was of course impossible as they would find out. This lead to the brief dissolution and reconvening of the organizational line in 2022. They would resolve to try and reconstitute a new party under Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. They have stayed mostly underground since then and the only information available is from the Worker Magazine (A Magazine heavily associated with the CR-CPUSA), but they don't have much real information on the recent activities of the CR-CPUSA either. As of now its unclear if the organization even exists anymore. 

The lessons of the CR-CPUSA and how to go forward

Our organization exists to correct their past mistakes and move forward. In order to do this we must first identify these mistakes, why they were made and how to avoid them going forward. 

• Attacking DSA meetings

This only served to reduce popular support and to hurt the Mass Line. We must only carry out such actions when absolutely necessary. An example when this was necessary is when the Red Guards attacked a PSL meeting where a known rapist pedophile was being protected. Even then it would be best to avoid such incidents.

• Being too decentralized

This led to the Red Guards becoming uncoordinated, divided and in some cases, mostly separate organizations. Any movement going forward must have a united leadership to carry out the preparation for and initiation of the revolution and people's war. 

• Rejecting mass line and failing to fully represent the American proletariat

These are some of their worst mistakes, they only represented those who are already Marxists and in the organization. They failed to represent the average proletarian in their common struggles. We must have an accompanying mass line organization, offer Marxist education programs and engage with the masses.

We must learn from these mistakes going forward.

Proletarians of the World, unite!
Maoist Students Collective