John Bachtell, former national committee chairperson of CPUSA, continues the party's decades long tradition of making shit up to discredit the left's greatest accomplishments. Liberals hate that Stalin and the greater communist movement destroyed the independence of Ukraine's ruling class and brought an end to the centuries of antisemitic violence they used to preserve their power.
SMDH my dickhead.
Check this shit out @Alaskaball@hexbear.net
They were okay in the 1930s-40s. They weren't segregated but in the 20s they were the image of crackkker incompetence trying to organize with black people (most often attempting to organize on behalf of black people, failing to build power by embedding with and growing from the workers). They did learn lessons and course-correct, though.
Actually, we had quite a few prominent Black members since the 1920s.
Mostly the late 1920s, but sure. CPUSA still only had a few hundred black members during this period and did a poor job organizing with black workers at the time. A good book on this topic is Hammer and Hoe, where it tells the story of eventual success of Marxian organizing with and by black Americans including by CPUSA and their notorious work in Alabama.
Also, Hammer and Hoe is limited in this regard and goes against CPUSA historiography, which even says that they proposed a Black Belt republic.
It did not.
Read Hammer and Hoe by Robyn D. G. Kelley.
The book I just suggested to you? lol
I initially misread your comment, btw. My apologies.
Yes
It's not that simple as you are suggesting, especially going by the book.
If you've only read Black Bolshevik, Hammer and Hoe, and Settlers by Sakai you will have a warped perception of CPUSA history.
And the work in Alabama was not "notorious."
Look at figures like Claudia Jones and W. Alphaeus Hunton.