Editing American Communist Party (current)

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The '''American Communist Party''' ('''ACP''') is a self-described [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] [[political party]] operating in the territory of the [[United States]] and [[Canada]]. It was founded in [[Chicago]] in July 2024 by several [[Patriotic socialism|patriotic socialist]] social media [[Influencer|influencers]] and claims to be the legitimate successor to the historic [[Communist Party of the United States of America|Communist Party USA]]. Its Plenary Committee consists of [[Haz Al-Din]], [[Henry Ahmad]], and [[Grayson Preutz]] of [[Infrared]]; [[Edward Smith|Eddie "Liger" Smith]], [[Carlos Garrido]], [[Noah Khrachvik]], and [[Kyle Pettis]] of [[Midwestern Marx]]; former [[Party of Communists USA|PCUSA]] International Secretary [[Chris Helali]]; [[Rev Laskaris]] of the [[Research and Technical Studies Group|RTSG]]; and most famously [[Jackson Hinkle]].<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=American Communist Party|title=Declaration of the American Communist Party|date=2024-07-22|url=https://acp.us/declaration|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241126205435/https://acp.us/declaration|archive-date=2024-11-26}}</ref>

Although the party has added the names of various CPUSA sections as signatories of its founding declaration,<ref name=":0" /> many of these sections were not aware they had signed the document and made statements distancing themselves from the ACP.<ref>{{Web citation|author=@UncolaMD|newspaper=Twitter|title=Of the 29 orgs. these dinguses claimed, 16 (red) have publicly refuted any association or endorsement, 2 (orange) don't even exist, and 1 (purple) dissolved roughly a week before this and is no longer active.|date=2024-07-23|url=https://x.com/UncolaMD/status/1815567086074126460|archive-url=https://archive.ph/iG1md}}</ref> In response, an ACP supporter claimed that the signing sections had been "unconstitutionally expelled from [CPUSA]",<ref>{{Web citation|author=JSummit2036|newspaper=Twitter|title=The social media account of a club represents only the illegal Sims clique, not the Communist Party itself. The true representatives were unconstitutionally expelled from the party. And who told you UConn/Storrs wasn’t real?|date=2024-07-25|url=https://x.com/JSummit2036/status/1816482334901727614|archive-url=https://archive.ph/0QcH5}}</ref> admitting that they had no authority to sign the CPUSA name on the ACP declaration.

Previously in 2022, patriotic socialists set up fake CPUSA accounts on Twitter to hijack the names of CPUSA sections as part of their failed [[CPUSA 2036]] strategy.<ref>The real CPUSA Indiana Twitter account is [https://x.com/indianacpusa @IndianaCPUSA], and a fake one handled by patriotic socialists exists at [https://x.com/CPUSA_IN @CPUSA_IN]</ref> Based on this, it is plausible to say that the ACP only used the name of CPUSA to boost their launch but otherwise had close to no contact with it.

== Ideology ==
The ACP is associated with the "[[MAGACommunism|MAGA Communism]]" trend of Haz Al-Din and Jackson Hinkle, both leaders of the party. In the ACP's party programme, the party omits properly dealing with the colonial question which dominates American history (never referencing [[land-back]]) and calls for the "Promotion of American Civilization".<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=American Communist Party|title=Party Program|date=2024-10-12|url=https://acp.us/program}}</ref>

== References ==
[[Category:Patriotic socialism]]