Max Weiss (activist)

Max Weiss served as "Educational Director" and/or "Secretary of the National Education Commission" of the Communist Party USA, was a member of the Party's National Committee, edited Political Affairs (magazine), and wrote often for the Party's The Communist magazine during the 1930s and 1940s.[1][2][3]

Max Weiss
OccupationEducational director, editor of Political Affairs
EmployerCPUSA
MovementCommunism

Career

Weiss served as general secretary of the Young Communist League.[2][4] In 1926, he wrote for the "Spartacist Group" of Illinois in Young Comrade: Paper for Workers' and Farmers' Children.[5]

Weiss served as Educational Director[1] and/or Secretary of the "National Education Commission" of the Communist Party USA and was a member of the Party's National Committee. He also edited Political Affairs.[2]

In February 1944, Weiss' fellow members of a sub-committee of the National Committee included: William Z. Foster (chairman), Robert Minor (secretary), James W. Ford, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Israel Amter, Rose Wortis, Ray Hansbrough, Steve Nelson, Louis Todd, Sam Don, Alexander Trachtenberg, A. Landy, John Williamson, Mother Bloor (Ella Reeve Bloor), Anita Whitney, Charles Krumbein, Rob Hall, Pettis Perry, Alfred Wagenknecht, and V. J. Jerome.[6]

In 1951, during HUAC hearings on Communist infiltration in Hollywood, "Max Weiss" received mention during discussion of Irving Henschel. Roy M. Brewer, a IATSE leader, described Henschel as "lead of the Communist faction in 1944" and "member of the Rank and File Committee which attempted to set up a revolt in our organization during the 1945 strike in Hollywood." When Henschel contacted CPUSA official Max Weiss in Ohio, Weiss reported Henschel's conduct to Roy Hudson in New York. The witness mentions "Weiss was at that time a Communist Party functionary in Ohio."[7]

Works
  • "American Imperialism's Growing Parasitic Bureaucracy" (1932)[8]
  • "Lenin and Proletarian Internationalism" (1941)[9]
  • "Who Are the Friends of the Youth?" (1941)[10]
  • "For a National Anti-Fascist Youth Front!" (1941)[11]
  • "Earl Browder — Champion of U. S.-Soviet Collaboration" (1941)[12]
  • "On the Occasion of Dimitroff's Sixtieth Birthday" (1942)[13]
  • "Speed the Second Front" (1942) with Earl Browder, William Z. Foster, and Israel Amter[14]
  • "The Nation and the Armed Forces" (1943)[15]
  • "Youth in the Fight for Victory" (1943)[16]
  • "Fifth-Column Diversion in Detroit" (1943)[17]
  • "Toward a New Anti-Fascist Youth Organization" (1943)[18]
  • "What Price Profits?" (1947)[2]
  • "A Comment on State Capitalism" (1948)[19]
  • "The Meaning of the XXth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" (1956)[1]

References
  1. Weiss, Max (1956). The Meaning of the XXth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. New Century. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  2. Weiss, Max (April 1947). A Documentary History of the Communist Party of the United States: The Party is over, 1946-1992. New Century Publishers. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  3. Starobin, Joseph Robert (1975). American Communism in Crisis, 1943-1957. University of California Press. pp. 134 (editor), 149 (article), 242 (1956). Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  4. Gates, John (1958). The Story of an American Communist. Nelson. pp. 18, 80, 164. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  5. Weiss, Max (June 1926). "Child Labor Evil Must Be Fought By Children" (PDF). Young Comrade: Paper for Workers' and Farmers' Children. Young Communist League. p. 1. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  6. "Decision of the National Committee of the Communist Party" (PDF). The Communist. 23 (2): 108. February 1944. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  7. Communist Activities Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, First-second Sessions. US GPO. 1951. pp. 482–483 (Ohio), 519 (report), 525 (mention). Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  8. Weiss, Max (August 1932). "American Imperialism's Growing Parasitic Bureaucracy" (PDF). The Communist. 11 (8). Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  9. Weiss, Max (January 1941). "Lenin and Proletarian Internationalism" (PDF). The Communist. 20 (1): 18–34. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  10. Weiss, Max (June 1941). "Who Are the Friends of the Youth?" (PDF). The Communist. 20 (6): 546–556. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  11. Weiss, Max (August 1941). "For a National Anti-Fascist Youth Front!" (PDF). The Communist. 20 (8). Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  12. Weiss, Max (November 1941). "Earl Browder — Champion of U. S.-Soviet Collaboration" (PDF). The Communist. 20 (11): 977–987. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  13. Weiss, Max (July 1942). "On the Occasion of Dimitroff's Sixtieth Birthday" (PDF). The Communist. 21 (7): 534–547. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  14. Speed the Second Front. Workers Library Publisher. October 1942. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  15. Weiss, Max (February 1943). "The Nation and the Armed Forces" (PDF). The Communist. 22 (2): 146–156. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  16. Weiss, Max (April 1943). "Youth in the Fight for Victory" (PDF). The Communist. 22 (4): 316–331. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  17. Weiss, Max (August 1943). "Fifth-Column Diversion in Detroit" (PDF). The Communist. 22 (8): 698–710. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  18. Weiss, Max (September 1943). "Toward a New Anti-Fascist Youth Organization" (PDF). The Communist. 22 (9): 792–805. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  19. Weiss, Max (May 1948). "A Comment on State Capitalism". The Communist. xxvii (5). Retrieved 14 July 2020.
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