Card-carrying communist

[3] During the Second Red Scare, the term was used as a label for members of the Communist Party, and was used in this manner by both the House Un-American Activities Committee investigations and Senator Joseph McCarthy.

A card-carrying communist was considered a genuine member of the party, while a fellow traveler only sympathised with the ideology.

A closer reference to the modern term was a 1918 piece in the New York Tribune, which described members of the Industrial Workers of the World, a prominent socialist union, as "red-card-carrying 'wobblies'".

[4] Because of the advent of digital technology, the contemporary Communist Party USA does not issue membership cards.

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