William Z. Foster, born on this day in 1881, was a radical American labor organizer and Marxist politician whose career included serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) from 1945 to 1957. He was previously a member of the Socialist Party of America (SPA) and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), although he was critical of the former for not working with already existing unions.

Foster was a key figure in the drive to organize the packinghouse industry during World War I and in instigating the Steel Strike of 1919. He was the more radical, pro-Soviet political rival of CPUSA leader Earl Browder, who was a supporter of the Roosevelt administration.

Foster was also a prolific political writer, and his work "Towards Soviet America" has been continuously republished by both leftists and anti-communists who see it as scandalous. Foster described the book as a "plain statement of Communist policy, avoiding technical complexities and theoretical elaboration...Its central purpose is to explain to the oppressed and exploited masses of workers and poor farmers how, under the leadership of the Communist party, they can best protect themselves now...".

The American Party of Labor claims descent from Foster and his secretary and aide, Jack Shulman.

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  • Electrickoolaide32 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Finally deleted my Reddit account or rather just deleted the app and said fuck it. Was attacked in a thread called and idiot by libs. I’m not proud of it but I just had a shaking break down cause of it.

    I’m beyond exhausted, my mom is on hospice in the home with me as the doctors have ended her chemo treatment. I’m with my sister and we are hanging in there but this has been the worst I’ve felt since November when we got her diagnosis.

    What I can’t wrap my head around is why this world and this society we live in is so needlessly cruel? I lost my brother in 2018 and just when I was feeling somewhat normal, covid, the summer protest and my moms diagnosis happened all back to back. I’m not suicidal and I don’t have those ideations, but a big part of me just wants to drive 1300 miles to California and just go walk into the Ocean and let it take me.

    We all joke about being jokerfied, base pilled and all that but all I feel is crushing defeat and the inability to do anything to help anyone anymore. Just I’m the butt of a cruel ass joke, someone that people can point to and go “well at least I’m not that sad sack of shit”.

    • DJMSilver [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      We are sad because capitalism exists. The motivation I need for keeping alive right now is to help prepare and carry out the revolution when it occurs. It will be hard (and it is hard for me) but i feel like letting everything go would be a betrayal to the proletariat.