As others have said, Huey Newton, Fred Hampton, and Debs are all great choices.
I think Malcolm X would have been a great leader to have as the head of a communist state. Towards the end of his life, Malcolm was like an inch away from arriving to socialism as the answer. Had he not been assassinated, there's a good chance he'd come to a Marxist conclusion. God help any reactionaries if he got his hands on a copy of Capital or State and Revolution. The man liked to read and would have devoured that shit.
Other Americans eligible for president who were communists (but wouldn't want to hold public office) include: Dalton Trumbo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Earnest Hemingway, Frank and Kitty Openheimer, Tupac Shakur, and Lucille Ball.
Also, I vote for Lee Harvey Oswald as CIA director.
She was, but she hasn't ran for/held office since then AFAIK. I kind of assumed she wanted out of public life since so many of her friends and loved ones have gotten murdered by the FBI.
As others have said, Huey Newton, Fred Hampton, and Debs are all great choices.
I think Malcolm X would have been a great leader to have as the head of a communist state. Towards the end of his life, Malcolm was like an inch away from arriving to socialism as the answer. Had he not been assassinated, there's a good chance he'd come to a Marxist conclusion. God help any reactionaries if he got his hands on a copy of Capital or State and Revolution. The man liked to read and would have devoured that shit.
Other Americans eligible for president who were communists (but wouldn't want to hold public office) include: Dalton Trumbo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Earnest Hemingway, Frank and Kitty Openheimer, Tupac Shakur, and Lucille Ball.
Also, I vote for Lee Harvey Oswald as CIA director.
Why wouldn't she want to hold public office? Wasn't she the CPUSA Vice Presidential Candidate in the '80s?
She was, but she hasn't ran for/held office since then AFAIK. I kind of assumed she wanted out of public life since so many of her friends and loved ones have gotten murdered by the FBI.