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Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.

My generation was the tail end of the Cold War.

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.