Yes. The Mexican painter Frida Kahlo joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1928, left it in 1929, rejoined in 1948, and called herself a communist until she died in 1954.
A flag with the hammer and sickle, the emblem of communism, lay over her coffin.
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Her politics started with a date. Born in 1907, Frida gave her birth year as 1910, the year the Mexican Revolution began, when Mexicans rose up against President Porfirio Díaz and drove him from power.
Her membership came later and lasted barely a year. In 1927 she joined the Young Communist League, the youth branch of the party, and by 1928 she was a full member. In 1929 she resigned.
The party card she gave up in 1929
Out of the party, she was drawn into the quarrel that divided communists everywhere: the fight between Joseph Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union, and Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Russian Revolution whom Stalin had driven into exile. In 1937 that quarrel came to live under her own roof.
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