Browderism
브라우더리즘
A revisionist line advanced by CPUSA General Secretary Earl Browder during World War II, which rejected class struggle in favor of class collaboration with the bourgeoisie and dissolved the party into the 'Communist Political Association' (CPA) in 1944. Under the slogan 'Communism is 20th Century Americanism,' it sought to dissolve Marxism into American democratic traditions and projected postwar US-Soviet coexistence, but came under attack from the international communist movement after the April 1945 'Duclos letter', actually written in Moscow, denounced it. The CPUSA was reconstituted in July 1945 under William Z. Foster, Browder was removed, and he was formally expelled in February 1946; Browderism was thereafter condemned as a 'notorious revision of Marxism.'
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- Wikipedia (EN) English Wikipedia article on Browderism covering its development, the dissolution of the CPUSA into the CPA, the Duclos letter, and Browder's expulsion.
- Wikipedia (RU) Russian Wikipedia article confirming the doctrinal characterization: rejection of class struggle, class collaboration, Americanism slogan, and post-Duclos condemnation.
- Wikipedia (EN) English Wikipedia biography of Earl Browder, covering the 'Communism is 20th Century Americanism' slogan, the 1944 CPA dissolution, the Foster-Darcy letter, the 1945 Duclos letter (Moscow-authored), and expulsion in February 1946.
- Marxists Internet Archive Jacques Duclos's April 1945 article 'On the Dissolution of the Communist Party of the United States' (Cahiers du communisme), the primary source attack on Browderism that triggered the reversal; quotes the Foster-Darcy letter and condemns Browder's liquidation of the party as a 'notorious revision of Marxism.'