In particular, Goldfield argues, during the mid-to-late 1930s Popular
Front the Party’s “acquiescence without a struggle” to the hegemony of
liberals like Steelworkers President Philip Murray “paved the way for
the dominance of right-wing, racially insensitive” leadership.” (179)
Similarly, Goldfield maintains, in the fight to organize woodworkers the
CP’s “surrender to the CIO rightists” and “the maintenance of the
Popular front” (240) sabotaged the potential for organizing Black
workers in the South.
Although he does not shy away from detailing the “self-destructive
sectarian behavior” (350) of the CP, Goldfield nevertheless endorses the
notion that the Party’s true role as a spark to labor militancy peaked
during its ultra-sectarian phases — i.e. the Third Period (1929-1933) —
and was then squandered when the Party followed Soviet dictates to make
nice with those to its right, like Roosevelt liberals or moderate CIO
leaders.
https://againstthecurrent.org/atc210/the-u-s-south-and-labors-fate/
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