I’ve tried to do some research, but I frankly don’t want to read paragraphs and paragraphs of policies and their history.
I know CPUSA is important, but in what ways are the two parties different?
As I understand it, when CPUSA shifted to a more bourgeois-oriented program they kicked out the chapters that protested the change, and those chapters became PCUSA, but it would be nice to know a little more about this history.
What are the party’s general stances on historical figures like Stalin or Mao, or modern figures like Xi or Putin?
I read on their site that they believe in political revolution, but I’m not sure if they say how they intend to bring about that revolution?
I’m not a mod of this page and don’t speak for the party as I’m a new member.
There is a whole playlist on YouTube about the break from CPUSA. Off the top of my head, the CPUSA dropped US Friends of the Soviet People upon the USSR being destroyed. That and the CPUSA backed some neolibs in elections and a litany of other counter revolutionary acts of which some heads made a their qualms known and we’re abandoned by the CPUSA. So theses heads and the US Friends became PCUSA. There’s a lot more to this in the PSMLS vids.
Very pro Stalin. Pro Mao for a certain period.
The party is very professional, active, and regimented and I think that if the elaborated any more on revolution, it would get destroyed by feds. They communicate with communists around the world, have many committees based on aspects of US society and we synthesize and disseminate information about these aspects through an ML lens, and we have the People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies (PSMLS). You’re allowed to attend as it is twice a week.
Don’t take my word as representative though. Reach out on the website and you will get in contact with a club chair and they are extremely knowledgeable about things. That way you can have a full blown conversation about any trepidations.
Remember, I am not a mod of this Lemmy page, I stumbled upon it.