Browder as Stalinist Here is what Earl Browder said in 1938 about calling himself a Stalinist w/o scare quotes. "The vigilence and unity of our members...is a unity based upon understanding and science, the science of history, founded by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels and, developed in the present era of imperialism and the rise of socialism as a world power, by Vladamir Lenin and Joseph Stalin...With the deepest pride we accapt the name of our most beloved teacher and guide. We are indeed Stalinists, and we hope to become ever more worthy of such a glorious name...Truly it is a proud name, Stalinist, and we must bear it with all modesty, for it carries with it a tremendous responsibility." --Earl Browder, "The Democratic Front, " Workers Library, 1938, g. 84, as cited in fn. 25, pg. 17 of Aileen Kraditor, "Jimmy Higgins: Inside the Mental World of the American Rank-And-File Communist, 1930-1958. " Kraditor, as you might know wrote several books on the abolitionists and suffragists. She was in the CPUSA from the late 40's to the late 50's.

The above quote from Browder's written work can also be backed up with an interview he conducted with NYC newspaper reporters, just after the Pact was announced in '39 where he calls himself a proud Stalinist, again. As cited by Harvey Klehr in his history of the CPUSA in the 30's blurbed by Hal Draper.

All these esteemed comrades self-identified as Stalinists here as well. Stalin, by V. M. Molotov, A. Mikoyan, N. Khrushchov [and others]...

"The articles collected in this book were written by Joseph Stalin's closest co-workers for the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, December 21, 1939." Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Published New York, Workers Library Publishers [c1940]

http://franklin.library.upenn.edu/record.html?id=FRANKLIN_1373710

https://blog.history.in.gov/a-communist-in-terre-haute-earl-browder-and-free-speech/