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C. E. Ruthenberg. 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 .
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Jun 17, 2023 · C.E. Ruthenberg and I.E. Ferguson were both indicted under a 1902 law implemented by the New York Legislature in the aftermath of the William McKinley assassination, charged with “Criminal Anarchy” for having been members of the National Council of the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party, the 9 member executive board responsible for ...
Jun 18, 2019 · Charles E. Ruthenberg: The first leader of the Communist Party USA – People's World. June 18, 20191:59 PM CDT By C.J. Atkins. Charles Ruthenberg addresses an anti-war demonstration in...
Charles E. Ruthenberg: The Development. of an American Communist, 1909-1927 . The Communist Party of America was the product of native radicalism and a foreign. ideology that inflamed extremists world wide after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. in Russia. In the United States, many Socialists who had resisted American involve-
In the Cleveland mayoral election of 1917, Ruthenberg won close to 30% of the vote. In that same year, he was arrested for his opposition to America’s entry into WORLD WAR I . He spent a year in prison, during which time he was tortured, an experience that left him a hardened and radicalized man.
C. E. Ruthenberg (recently convicted of syndicalism in Michigan) was there at the head of the Workers’ Party. William Z. Foster appeared quietly as a delegate from a Chicago union.
The destinies of the Communist Party — the American Bolshevists — are intrusted to a group of extreme radicals, including C. E. Ruthenberg, Louis C. Fraina, Isaac E. Ferguson, and Karl...
