I think that Mr. Webb has lost site of what a communist party is all about. That working class, Marxist-Leninist ideology is not some dogmatic out of date babble.
Comrade W.Z. Foster wrote, "The Communist Party of the United States cannot be some vague Marxist party [Political Affairs 1956].
There is Marxist-Leninist ideology and Bourgeois ideology.
Comrade Gus Hall wrote, "There can be no ideological convergence". "Comrades should not waste their time searching for one especially since most who seek a third way land in the bourgeois camp" ["The Power and Ideology" 1989]
It appears that Mr. Webb is directing the CPUSA not to the road to Socialism, but to the third way to becoming just another bourgeois party.
Mick Gardiner