For heaven’s sake! I know Somerset’s got a reputation for being a bit sleepy but surely you can’t need this explaining? No, of course they don’t wear uniforms (unless you count goatee beards and homemade sweaters).
Hey, I was a young conservative. I read Ayn Rand and everything.
How old is your son? My first impression is that he’s joining because he was looking to get laid by some attractive Party chick (an apparatchik, get it?).
By the time he’s old enough to get a job or security clearance or anything, communism will be so old that his membership will probably generate more laughs than suspicion. (“Ewwww, you were a commie? I was a goth, myself.”)
In the interest of accuracy:
It’s also worth noting that the definition of “republican” at the time the quote originated has little to do with modern day Republicans.
Regarding the OP, I agree that you have little worry about, unless you see junior start to build pipe bombs in his spare time, or something. If you want to hasten his abandonment of communism, though, give him a subscription to National Review. 
Jeff
Don’t bet on it. I was practically a commie in my high school days, and now I wave the Free Market flag 3 times before I go to bed each night.
Ask him if he’s doing it to get the chicks, like I was.
Ignorant question : Is the above true ? Why would it cause trouble ?
**Montezuma wrote:
My son has just recently joined the Communist youth league, should I be worried? What do they do? Is he in any danger?**
Why don’t you do something really radical like ask him why he joined and then ask him to explain his political and economic philiosophies to you.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I’m a dreamer! 
First the PT Cruiser now this, this retro stuff is getting out of hand.
When you apply for a position within a covert agency, such as the CIA, NSA, and such, they do a background check that’ll make your head spin. I lived with a girl who was the ex-girlfriend of some guy from highschool, and she was interviewed by someone because her ex had applied for a low-ranking position in the CIA. One of the questions they asked was whether or not he was a member of any clubs or organizations.
While being a member of the Communist Party when you’re a dumb kid (no offense to the OP’s kid) is far from a sign that you’re going to sell out to the Chinese, the government likes to cover all its bases, and it gets enough applicants that it reject people for even such innocuous “offenses” as these, and still have plenty to choose from.
Jeff
Isn’t it illegal to discriminate based on politial affiliation? The Communist Party is a legimate political entity. If the CIA can discriminate against it’s members, could they also, for instance, refuse those who are members of the Democratic Party?
It should be amended to read “if he needs to get a security clearance in the United States”. I think some Dopers forget to check the poster’s “Location” field before replying, either that or they don’t realise not every country is as paranoid about communism as the US is.
Actually, if he ever wants to immigrate to the United States it may cause some problems too. But apart from that, he’s probably got little to worry about.
Say it ain’t so, elucidator!
Ain’t that the truth!!!
Read Radical Son by David Horowitz (without you son’s knowledge). Buy The Communist Manifesto and other books by Marx and Engels. Let your son see these.
**Montezuma wrote:
My son has just recently joined the Communist youth league, should I be worried? What do they do? Is he in any danger?**
Why don’t you do something really radical like ask him why he joined and then ask him to explain his political and economic philiosophies to you.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I’m a dreamer!
Wow…a double post that is over 6 hours apart. Congrats, Freyer.
The Spartacus Youth League is a great place to pick up enlightened women. Not.
Yes, thats very bad!
It is a clea sign that he will do arts at university and spend the rest of his life as a McDonalds worker. Crush any signs of rebellion early on and get him into a nice engineering degree.
Montezuma: you may want to find out if there are any cute girls in the local Communist youth league chapter. He might just be joining in a bid to get laid. 
**Neurotik wrote:
Wow…a double post that is over 6 hours apart. Congrats, Freyer.**
YIPES It was those EVIL Commies, I tell ya!! Them’s the ones that did it!
Take a look into the future and shudder at the horror of it all.
Your son will orchestrate an overthrowal of British society through spending his evenings in drafty public hall meetings that would bore most to contemplation of suicide. All of these meeting will be entitled “International Socialism: The Way Forward” or a variation of such and be sparsely attended by the same 10 people.
Your son will ignite a revolution of the proletariat by handing out leaflets to uninterested shoppers in rain-lashed Saturday afternoon high streets. If he’s really fortunate he will get a 10 minute shot at haranguing people with the megaphone.
Your son will smash the international capitalist hierarchy by sitting up until 3 a.m. drinking bad home-brewed ale and having earnest and increasingly confused debates with intense young men in suspiciously affected working class accents. No one will get laid, ever, lest it result in someone being oppressed.
Your son will show solidarity with the workers of the world by attending mass demonstrations and marches of 20 and calling bored policemen “fascist”.
Clearly he is in great danger. You must stop this.
Are you sure it isn’t just a rock band?
jshore, I cannot, it is true, I was much taken with Ayn Rand, the Carlos Castaneda of Republicans. Luckily, I was soon off to the University, where a palliative course of sex, drugs, and rock and roll was applied, and underwent a complete recovery. I remain grateful to this day for exotic alkoloids and generous young women.
I was also much taken by the vaguely homo-existentialism of Herman Hesse, until the day I noticed that all of his heroes had long eyelashes.