Was there ever a realistic chance of the Communist Party winning

>>2403512
The cpusa are liberals

>>2403512
CPUSA never had more than 100,000 members at their height. Their goal wasn't to win elections, but to spread class consciousness among American workers and relieve poverty via aid and organization.

>>2403527
Not back in the day, they weren't.

>>2403576
Yes, back in the day they were 100% FBI instead.

>>2403587
That started after the war.

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>>2403852
Don't mention the war!

>>2403512
>Was there ever a realistic chance of the Communist Party winning an election in the United States?
nope

>How could they have done it and installed communism in the land of the free?
By slowly taking over the world one domino at a time until the USA was outmatched, then launch a coup/revolution

>>2403512
Before World War 2, the US Communist party had a decent amount of support and popularity.

The rise of the Soviet Union killed most of it.

>>2403576
c l a s s c o n s c i o u s n e s s

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There are more chances of a Libertarian Party president being elected

>>2403512
Comminism is not real thing, it can not be implemented, therefore Communist Party of USA like Elvish Party or Troll Party.

>>2403909
>it can not be implemented
Why not?

>>2403912
A communistic economical model of society without money system can't be.

>>2403939
Why is that?

>communist
>election
That's where you lost me.

>>2403939
Yes it can

>>2403909
But the US is currently governed by trolls!

>>2403512
Not after WWI, the CPUSA had heavy FBI infiltration in order to limit the groups power and popularity in response to the violent socialist revolutions that were occurring in Russia and Germany. The members who didn't break off to join the democrats became part of what amounted to a FBI honeypot.

>communism
>land of free

thats an oxymoron

>>2403960
i can already see it, if he replies it'll go along the lines of the pathetic "its against human nature" argument.

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>>2407213
that depend on what you mean by free. I may be a commie, but wordplay is my true passion

>>2404857
wouldn't survive on a nation level without some sort of central authority, and would thus go against it's own tenants of being free of anti-authoritarian and classless.

>>2403512
>Was there ever a realistic chance of the Communist Party winning an election in the United States?

Not even the slightest possibility. Labour groups have never been very successful in America compared to other countries. They never had any chance of defeating the government, liberalism, or capitalists.

>>2407883
go against it's own tenants of being anti-authoritarian and classless.***

>>2407880
The last thing to go will be no.

>Being a Commie in 2017

Jesus Christ you people never learn do you.. 150 million people dead in the Soviet Union and Maoist China doesn't put you guys off at all?

>>2407935

>wasn't real communism meme

But the current US economy is free market capitalism

>>2407944
Well the point isn't if the idea maps perfectly on to reality, the point is that the attempt to force the idea to map perfectly onto reality causes genocide.

>>2403512
Fuck no