His politics were of the naive ‘Peace on Earth’ variety. HE never joined any communist party as far as I know.
Barack Obama's politics are of the naive "Equality on Earth" variety. HE never associates with any radical leftist or Islamic organizations as far as I know.
So he's rubbing elbows with groups and individuals who supported communist mass murderers like Mao and Stalin?
He was a Soviet-type marxist through and through.
You won't find many, if any, registered Communist Party members today in the entertainment/Hollywood/Broadway/media/arts professions, either......although we know there's plenty of them around in spirit. Greed and the love of money usually trumps ideology in the creative fields...so mum's the word.
Leni
The “peace” bit gives it away. Communist activists in non-communist countries found it hard, and economically inadvisable, to come out and admit they were communists so they became involved in promoting “peace”, I mean who can object to peace? The peace oddly enough was a rather one-sided type of peace and it usually involved leaving communists alone in peace while at the same time blithely ignoring the violence committed by communist regimes.
They set up “peace groups”, funded “peace studies”, awarded “peace prizes” that oddly enough always favoured communists and pushed communist ideology. It’s odd that although Chaplin believed in peace at the same time he demanded a second front (apparently fighting the Nazis in the sea, in the air and in Italy and North Africa didn’t count) where ill-prepared western armies would be landed in France in 1942 or 1943 to be slaughtered by the Nazis while the Soviets got stronger and stronger. Funny sort of peace.
We can see the same thing today when anti-American activists never call themselves anti-American activists, they are always peace-campaigners or anti-war activists.
Chaplin was a commie fifth columnist, whether he was a useful idiot or a committed Red I will leave to the judgment of others.