MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Communist and socialist activists are increasingly joining broader liberal protest movements, where they are promoting a 20-hour workweek, rent caps, seizure of private property and confiscating wealth . . . .

The exchanges reflect a broader pattern identified in Fox News Digital reporting, where far-left ideas once considered fringe are increasingly appearing alongside more mainstream protest movements, often within demonstrations billed as broadly focused on workers’ or immigrant rights as well as "No Kings" protests.

"We are building a party of professional class fighters, people who are seriously looking at the system of capitalism and coming to the conclusion that we need a revolution… on a socialist basis," said Owen Phernetton, a member of the Revolutionary Communists of America. He was holding a copy of the group’s newspaper, The Communist, and was wearing a sweater that read "Communism Will Win."

"Their wealth should be expropriated and put to use for the working class," he said, while arguing for decreasing the workday to only 20 hours a week without any loss in pay.

"I'm a communist because the workers create all the value in society and we get to own none of it under capitalism," she said. She argued that rent should be capped at 10% of income and dismissed the struggles of similar policies in cities like New York and California.

"The reason why rent control hasn’t worked is because it hasn’t been under workers’ control… under capitalism, it won’t work," she said.

"I came to the conclusion that capitalism is not the way to go. We need socialism, we need communism for the workers of the world," Cass Batica said, pointing to the Soviet Union as an example.

Comment: Why don't these communists move to North Korea or Cuba to enjoy the worker's paradise they crave?

Watched an older Chinese woman on Mike Rowe the other day - talking about how her parents embraced communism back in the day, and the horrors of the Cultural Revolution.

Propaganda framed as SCIENCE is what got me, NE. And in the end, it forever changed me.

Guess it will be time to sell what I can and move on in life.

I would rather rent the place to a friend in need at cost than to be stuck under what that crazy person was suggesting.

But hey, I might have a 20 hour work week at times for the same money. But then again I put in a lot of time to get to this point.