Déjà Vu All Over Again

The problem of the role of the Communist Party (CPUSA) and other elements of the Pro-Soviet Left (PSL) in the history of US labor-liberalism endures. A quarter century ago, Theodore Draper critiqued the work of an emerging generation of revisionist scholars who challenged a prevailing liberal orthodoxy that stressed the thralldom of American Communist to Moscow. Subsequently, as amply documented in Eric Arnesen's paper, traditionalists, revisionists, post-revisionists and new revisionist have continued skirmishing as the stream of academic studies and participant memoirs flows onward. Adapted from the source document.