Yes, Virginia, there are Communists in the affordable housing next door.
Same bunch covers the president in office now and they are even more a threat than before.
They may not all be Communists with a capital “C”. Marx would probably categorize the majority of the Congressional Progressive Caucus as “crude communists”.
Compare the CPC agenda with Marx’s description of unthinking, crude communism (rohe Kommunismus):
“This type of communism since it negates the personality of man in every sphere is but the logical expression of private property, which is this negation. General envy constituting itself as a power is the disguise in which greed re-establishes itself and satisfies itself, only in another way. The thought of every piece of private property as such is at least turned against wealthier private property in the form of envy and the urge to reduce things to a common level, so that this envy and urge even constitute the essence of competition. Crude communism is only the culmination of this envy and of this levelling-down proceeding from the preconceived minimum. It has a definite, limited standard ... the abstract negation of the entire world of culture and civilisation, the regression to the unnatural simplicity of the poor and crude man who has few needs and who has not only failed to go beyond private property, but has not yet even reached it.”
They’re communists alright, but not even Marx would have them.
The CPC is probably comprised of a few Communists who understand Marx, a bunch of “unthinking, crude communists”, and a large fraction of useful idiots. I seriously doubt that more than a few of CPC members have read any Marx other than the Communist Manifesto, which was no more than a propaganda pamphlet for the Communist Party. They all are tools, however, for the destruction of everything good about America.