“I joined. I don’t regret being a part of the Communist tactic, which increased the effectiveness of a good cause. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the Communists wanted.”

Not quite sure how to rate this. Though Baldwin finally discovered the enslaving results of all socialism's administrative forms (communism, fascism, etc.), I think it was his original influence in the ACLU that allowed the extremes of good and bad.