List of Communists Currently Holding Office in US on Karl Marx’s Birthday

Today marks the birthday of Karl Marx, the 19th-century philosopher and economist widely regarded as the founder of communism. His ideas, which were most famously laid out in The Communist Manifesto in 1848, have long been controversial in the United States, where communism has historically been met with deep suspicion and sometimes outright suppression. However, despite its rarity, there are several openly affiliated Communist Party members in public office. Newsweek compiled a list of U.S. politicians who identify as Communists today. Why It Matters For much of the 20th century, communism in the United States was treated not just as...