Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been a Member Of The Communist Party?

[Placebo]

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party?

Me? Never!

[GainesT1958]

1. Hey, what do we need Commies for?

We've already got the Neo-Cons and Ashcroft--and they're already running their own Politburo!:eyes:

B-)

[notadmblnd]

2. the last party I was a member of was a....

Martini/Hottub party.. Now that was a party!

[DenverDem]

3. I lived in a commune in the 70's and we sure did party.

Does that qualify?

[Trailrider1951]

29. LOL, me too!

Free Form Farm, F3, in Ohio. Man those were the days!:hippie:

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. No, but I did attend several meetings of democratic socialists back

in the eighties -- there was this girl there, you see...

[Zuni]

6. Social Democrats are not the same thing

Social Democrats are basically progressives with Marxist tendencies. Communists are authoritarian socialists, like Lenin who despised Democracy.

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. So who knew? It was the eighties, and there was this girl...

[TahitiNut]

5. Not yet.

[blackcat77]

7. I was in the SDS which got me on the FBI SOL list... :)

[Zuni]

9. I would never join the Communist Party

the CPUSA supported the USSR on everything, and my family left the USSR over 50 years ago to escape the tyranny and oppression.
They are nothing but stooges for tyrants.

[Placebo]

10. Here, Here!

[UdoKier]

11. Never a member, not a sympathizer...

...but I am also not an anti-communist. It is a flawed organizing principle for a society, as is unfettered capitalism. Decent societies should be trying to find the proper balance between the two ideals.

[Quetzal]

12. I am not a Communist

but am a Socialist Democrat.

[Solon]

13. Nope never, at best I'm a Democratic Socialist...

Though I do wonder when the time will come when the question would be:

"Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Democratic Party?"

This question has been asked twice for blacklist purposes in the past, first for Anarchists, then Communists, if * has his way, it will be a third time.

[BrotherBuzz]

14. Fellow traveler here, although...

I'm with Groucho (not Karl) Marx on this one: I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

[sphincter]

15. No..

..but I grew up in Sweden during the 70's. 'nuf said...

[PBR me]

16. nyet!

[depakid]

17. Even communists weren't really communists!

LOL. Elitist Cronyists would be more acurate and descriptive.

A foolish and backrupt ideology. Not unlike the current crop of far right Republicans, sans theology.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

18. No, but I've tinkered with Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism

and also Anarcho-Liberalism. I've never been a Communist though.

[mr blur]

19. Yep

Certainly have. You could do that in the UK in the '70s without being tarred and feathered and then strung up from a lamp-post.

[AntiFascist]

20. No...

I'm a neo-Antifascist.

[Piperay]

21. No I have known several

people that belonged to the party though and basically they were very conservative, too much so for my taste. x(

[Chomskyite]

22. I could answer that

. . . but I'd hate myself in the morning.

[Placebo]

26. Why?

:hi:

[JSJ]

23. little 'c' commune-ist, i was and am- a citizen is more than capital

[sofa king]

24. No, but when I was going to Young Democrat meetings at Virginia Tech...

...We had a couple of exchange students from the Glasnost-era Soviet Union who hung about.

Embarassing true story: one of the guys was from Moscow--all Russian, all Communist Party. The other guy didn't get along so well with the Russian. One drunken night, he patiently tried to explain to me that he was Ukranian, and that he was only a Party Member so that he could come to the United States. One day the Ukranians would secede from the Soviet Union, he said, and become independent.

I couldn't get my beer-addled mind around the concept that this little Commie bastard Russkie was none of those things.

Man, did he ever show me to be the fool.

[NoPasaran]

25. Socialist Workers Party here

We called the CPers "Stalinists".

I won't even mention what we called the Democrats.

[bobaloo2]

27. No, but..

I'm often mistaken for one, as apparently only about 20 Americans understand the difference between communism and anarcho-syndicalism (hint: one doesn't involve a coercive state forcing you to cooperate).

[Tyler Durden]

28. Socialist Workers' Party here, too:

Was a card-carrying CPUSA member, though. EVERY party has its "fringe elements." I was a liberal one, and I refered to the Far Right Wing CPUSA'ers (YES, we DID call them RIGHT WINGERS) as "MAOISTS" or "STALINISTS." "LENINISTS" we not quite as extreme, and they all looked down on us "MARXISTS."

Factions, factions, everywhere, everywhere.

[bunkerbuster1]

31. How about the People's Front of Judea?

or was that the Judean People's Front?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

36. Dogmatic. moralistic, heads up their asses... yep... I can agree with "RW"

[SOL]

43. well said

Point well made. There is a difference between communism and marxism. Unfortunately, even socialism needs a strong central government. Can you imagine trying to keep conservative types from trying to exploit workers without a strong government?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

30. Anarchist. To hell with the RW commies.:)

All the CPUSA members I've met were as rigid as born agains in their ideology. The Trots were (and are) a good bunch though.

This sounds like a red-baiting thread to me.

[trotsky]

32. Believe it or not, considering my username,

NO.

[obreaslan]

33. Born on a commune...

Born on a commune...:hippie:

But never considered myself part of the communist party :party:. Some good theories though...

[SOL]

44. can you elaborate?

Tell us what you agree with?

[Zancan]

34. Our current communist parties are all jokes that are living in the past

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

35. No, not ever. Communism sucks.

[K-W]

37. Wow a commie bashing thread on DU

Color me surprised.

[BurtWorm]

39. Such bravery, eh?

:eyes:

[AZCat]

38. Have you no sense of decency, sir?

At long last, have you no sense of decency?

[bigbrewha]

40. NASA agrees Bush is a Dictator

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6341451/

[ArnoldLayne]

41. About 22 years ago the Workers League which

was a Trotskyist Party and is now is defunked.

[JSJ]

42. communists were the first to fight the nazis...

...in the streets of Berlin and Munich- while the rest of the world slept!