Communists have a place in the United States.

As a Cuban living in the United States people have always made the assumption that I am anti-castro or anti-communist this is not the case. I only relocated to America to work in a prestigious cocktail bar, study at NYU and work for the CPUSA (communist party USA). I do believe even as a law-abiding citizen it is still very taboo to be a communist in such a ridiculously capitalist country. The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States,[2] and is the largest communist party in the country. Established in 1919, it has a long, complex history that is closely related to the histories of similar communist parties worldwide and the U.S. labor movement. For the first half of the 20th century, the Communist Party was a highly influential force in various struggles for democratic rights. It played a prominent role in the U.S. labor movement from the 1920s through the 1940s, having a major hand in founding most of the country's first industrial unions (which would later use the McCarran Internal Security Act to expel their Communist members) while also becoming known for opposing racism and fighting for integration in workplaces and communities during the height of the Jim Crow period of U.S. racial segregation. Historian Ellen Schrecker concludes that decades of recent scholarship[3] offer "a more nuanced portrayal of the party as both a Stalinist sect tied to a vicious regime and the most dynamic organization within the American Left during the 1930s and '40s".[4] By August 1919, only months after its founding, the Communist Party claimed 50,000 to 60,000 members. Members also included anarchists and other radical leftists. In contrast, the more moderate Socialist Party of America had 40,000 members. The sections of the Communist Party'sInternational Workers Order meanwhile organized for communism around linguistic and ethnic lines, providing mutual aid and tailored cultural activities to an IWO membership that peaked at 200,000 at its height.[5] But the Communist Party's early labor and organizing successes did not last. As the decades progressed, the combined effects of the second Red Scare, McCarthyism, Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 Secret Speech denouncing the previous decades of Joseph Stalin's rule, and the adversities of the continued Cold War mentality, steadily weakened the Party's internal structure and confidence. The Party's membership in the Comintern and its close adherence to the political positions of the Soviet Union enabled anti-communist critics to constantly present the party as not only a threatening, subversive domestic entity, but also as a "foreign" agent fundamentally alien to the "American way of life". Internal and external crises swirled together, to the point where members who did not end up in prison for party activities tended either to disappear quietly from its ranks or to adopt more moderate political positions at odds with the Communists' party line. By 1957, membership had dwindled to less than 10,000, of whom some 1,500 were informants for the FBI.[6] The party attempted to recover with its opposition to the Vietnam War during the Civil rights movement in the 1960s, but its continued uncritical support for an increasingly stultified and militaristic Soviet Union increasingly alienated them from the rest of the U.S. left, who saw this supportive position as outdated and even dangerous. At the same time, the party's ageing membership demographics and noticeably hollow calls for "peaceful coexistence" failed to speak to a new Left in the United States. With the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev and his effort to radically alter the Soviet economic and political system from the mid-1980s, the Communist Party finally became estranged from the leadership of the Soviet Union itself. In 1989, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union cut off major funding to the CPUSA due to its opposition to glasnost and perestroika. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the party held its convention and attempted to resolve the issue of whether the Party should reject Marxism-Leninism. The majority reasserted the party's now purely Marxist outlook, prompting a minority faction which urged social democrats to exit the now reduced party. The party has since adopted Marxism-Leninism within its program.[2] The Communist Party USA is based in New York City. For decades, its West Coast newspaper was the People's World, and its East Coast newspaper wasThe Daily World.[7] The two newspapers merged in 1986 into the People's Weekly World. The PWW has since become an online only publication, calledPeople's World. The party's former theoretical journal, Political Affairs Magazine, is now also published exclusively online, but the party still maintainsInternational Publishers as its publishing house. In June 2014, the Party will be holding its 30th National Convention in Chicago.It is my conclusion that the liberal minded people of the United States yearn for communism and the equality this country so desperately needs.Sources:http://en.wikipedia.org...;