Open Commies, yes. But today there are many, many more Indians for every chief.
Sorry to shoot down your “figures” balloon but today’s Communist Party USA and its split off faction, The Committee of Correspondence, probably have a combined membership of just several thousand at the most. The old Stalinists have basically died off and the recruiting for new people is not very successful.
This is not to say that they don’t still have political and academic influence because they do, but they are a shell of what they used to be (I’ve questioned Herbert Aptheker, the CP’s ideological theoretician as well as George Novack, one of Trotsky’s secretaries and theoretician of the Socialist Workers Party. Even met C.L. R. James at a CP Chile conference at George Washington University.
The SWP is really a shell of themselves when they had several thousand members and more in the anti-Vietnam front, the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, WONAAC (Women’s National Abortion Action Committee, which I exposed in Women’s Wear Daily a long time ago), andthe Political Rights Defense Fund (an amalgamation of old CP attorneys and SWP staff/lawyers).
Today’s biggest Marxist party/organization is the Democratic Socialists of America, whose membership is a “reported” 10,000 or more, esp. made up of young college uneducated students. Many members of Congress are members of the DSA. See the “DSA” site at www.keywiki.org for more detailed information.
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization and its various affinity groups, plus the powerful Marxist “Working Families Party” (WFP), are also gaining a lot of political behinds the scene power in getting radicals elected to city councils, town councils, and even city, state and national office.
There are a few other maoist organizations, esp. the Psychopaths R Us” “revolutionary Communist Party” (Resist Fascism front group), and the mixed Marxist/anarchist ANTIFA are not very large but are well organized, funded, spread out over the country, travel across state lines to foment riots and revolution, and to recruit lone “psychopaths”, “meth-heads”, sexually mixed up people, and independent Marxists/communists/progressives.
Oh, we should not forget the Progressives for America and similar groups like that, including the Socialist Forum organization, which has thousands of members/followers.
Other than the above, the communists/Marxists/progressives/anarchists and assorted psychopaths aren’t doing too well!