(Above: Jay Lovestone, true name Liebstein)

Just like in Europe, Jews led the communist movement in America. (I mention socialists with communists here because they were all influenced by Karl Marx).

Jewish founders/leaders of the Socialist party: Daniel De Leon, Morris Hillquit and Victor Berger.

Jewish founders/leaders of the Communist party: Benjamin Gitlow, Jay Lovestone, Julius Hammer (founder of the Communist Labor Party, which became part of the CPUSA), Martin Abern (a Trotskyist), Alexander Bittelman, John Pepper, Isaac E. Ferguson, Bertram Wolfe, Nicholas Hourwich, Maximilian Cohen.

(Admittedly, a few founders/leaders of the American communist movement weren’t Jews, e.g., Charles Ruthenberg, Alfred Wagenkneckt, Louis Fraina and the socialist Eugene Debs)[1].

[1] it’s important to note, however, that the gentile radicals were nonetheless influenced by Jews, e.g., the socialist leader Debs was given a copy of Marx’s book “Das Capital” by the Jew, Victor Berger, a book which influenced Debs greatly. By the way, I’ve seen a mention of the American communist party being “only” 33% Jewish. If you’re talking about the top 33%, i.e., the highest-ranking people, from the very beginning of the movement, then, yes, that’s probably an accurate percentage

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