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Charles Emil Ruthenberg (July 9, 1882 – March 1, 1927) was an American Marxist politician and a founder and head of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). He is one of four Americans to be buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis .
Jun 17, 2023 · C.E. Ruthenberg, Secretary of Local Cuyahoga County, Socialist Party, was charged with “causing a disturbance” in connection with this violent episode of state savagery, which he ably chronicles here.
Jun 18, 2019 · When he passed away suddenly at the age of 44, he cheated a Michigan prison of its next inmate and left a young Communist Party USA—then called the Workers (Communist) Party—in...
An implacable foe of capitalism, in death Ruthenberg had to take a backseat to an article about one of the Roaring Twenties' greatest capitalist icons--Babe Ruth. Source: Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections Creator: Cleveland Plain Dealer Date: March 3, 1927.
As leader of LOCAL CLEVELAND (the Socialist Party branch in the city), Ruthenberg was an effective organizer and perennial political candidate. He ran for mayor four times (1911, 1915, 1917, 1919); for Ohio governor in 1912; for the U.S. Senate in 1914; and for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916 and 1918.
Shortly after the United States joined the autocratic Tsar of Russia and the “liberty-loving” Mikado of Japan in the “Crusade for Democracy,” Ruthenberg was before capitalism’s bar of justice as a violator of the wartime espionage acts.
Charles E Ruthenberg. As a young man struggling for a living in the commercial world, Ruthenberg believed in the ideals of laissez-faire capitalism and Social Darwinism that were popular at the time. He continued to read widely.
