By "occam"

[Please see original post and comments: HERE ]

The Communist Party (CPUSA) recently donated their extensive archives to NYU's Tamiment Library, a radical history archive. With their archives now housed at NYU, the CPUSA is renovating and renting out their 8-story building on W. 23rd St to commercial tenants -- potentially generating millions of dollars in annual income.

It's an open secret that the CPUSA plays a leadership role in various left-liberal organizations (most recently, UFPJ) out of all proportion to their actual membership size or political influence. What is (and what should be) their role in larger movements? Do they have any accountability to those movements?

NOTE: I'm not an expert and short on time, so some of what I write below will be incomplete. Hopefully people can add information in comments. Please let's have a solidly political discussion of the PRESENT, not a rehashing of decades-old grudges. Thanks.