My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.
I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.
My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
My father said, 'Son, when you grow up, I don't want you to be a member of a party that caters to the oppressed and the poor. You have to aspire to be a member of a party that is happy, winning and influential.'
I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
In my grandfather's time, the FN was founded largely as an anti-Communist party.