What are some of the most popular misconceptions and myths in America about communism?
There are many popular misconceptions about the Party, communism and socialism. One is that everything in the USSR and China and Cuba and other socialist countries is totalitarian, repressive, and undemocratic. These misconceptions at best are a superficial analysis and at worst an intentional falsehood. Another is that to be a Communist is somehow unpatriotic, when the reverse is true: real patriotism requires a radical outlook to make our country one that really serves its people. The right-wing claim that communist ideas are “foreign” ideas is a xenophobic, chauvinistic, and ignorant view. Some say Communist Parties are hidden conspiracies, hoping to overthrow the government through “force and violence.” We see revolutions as profoundly democratic events, which if they are to be successful must involve a majority of the working class. Most of the things our Party has been accused of doing are, when looked at closely, legal, constitutional, and progressive. While a counter-revolution
