They are fellow travelers. They may not be card carrying members of the Communist Party, but they are sympathetic to their goals. The first step is to tear down the moral order and create anarchy. Then rebuild into a Communist system. That’s the plan.
Create chaos and then rebuilt. Top down, bottom up.
Look at how completely in the tank the formerly free media is now for Obama. Not one voice questioning Cuba (jails gays, political dissent) from any MSM source or even leftist group.