The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) was established on this day in 1919. CPUSA provided legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys, helped poor Southern farmers form sharecropper unions, and promoted communist ideas within the U.S.

The party was established after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution, and initially operated underground due to the Palmer Raids, a series of anti-immigrant, anti-labor, and anti-communist raids conducted by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.

CPUSA was an early opponent of segregation and racial discrimination, giving legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys and helping poor black farmers in the South organize sharecropper unions. Because of this, the party had a strong presence in Alabama in the 1930s. This history is detailed in “Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression” by historian Robin D.G. Kelley.

Hammer and Hoe pdf cpusa

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  • forcequit [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    10 months ago

    meow-hug

    Maybe I’m trying to distance myself from its prevalence, but I feel like you’ve either gotta be way too old or way too young to pull that one out these days?
    Regardless, that’s fucked. I’m sorry

    • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      10 months ago

      Some old tradies at the bar next to me. I don’t even know if they were saying it in response to me arriving and taking off my headphones.

      I vaguely remember it was in Southpark at some stage?

      • forcequit [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        tradies at the bar

        wtyp

        victim blaming aside, yeah it was pretty ubiquitous 10-20 years ago, probably from south park as you suggest. Trash show with trash cultural influence lol :s

        • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          I’m actually pretty sure it was solely responsible for a rise in anti-semitic language on the playground. Also being very libertarian “centrist” about everything.

          • forcequit [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
            9·
            10 months ago

            definitely popularized “hating everyone equally”, and id definitely never heard some of the antisemitic language before it.

            “Mum, what’s a *****?”