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.
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HOW??? how could carnival row possibly make the antiracist definitely-not-bolsheviks supporting the fairy jewish-allegory that not-london put into a literal ghetto in the last season---the bad guys?
like they're doing the typical "bad revolutionaries murder" thing but provide overwhelming evidence in the text of the show that the violence is absolutely necessary and justified. you're really going to expect viewers to somehow sympathize with the people the show has doing apartheid, lynchings, & murdering people for miscegenation?
maybe thats the point? i feel like im being too hopeful
im half convinced a writer decided to go balls-out leftwing in the script, but the other parts of production still try to point you against the communists and pro liberals
like the musical ques are all sinister when the commies show up
we're just too badass