ABSTRACT
Otto Hall's refusal to reconsider the party's stance produced internal disquiet that boiled over at an August 1990 meeting of the Communist Party of the United States of America's (CPUSA) National Committee. When Soviet communism faced its terminal crisis, the CPUSA was only a marginal entity on the edge of mainstream US politics. There have been several court fights between the CPUSA and the Committees of Correspondence over some of the movement's capital assets. The vagueness of its ideological stance also means that while the largest part of its membership is still made up of former CPUSA members, the Committees of Correspondence (CoC) is losing its ideological distinctiveness as a communist organization. When some of these executors went with the CoC, the CPUSA sued, arguing that all of the money should be under CPUSA control. By August 1992, the CoC claimed a membership of about 1,400, probably exceeding that of the CPUSA.
