Bohm joined the Berkeley campus chapter of the Communist Party in November 1942. But he found the reality of the party less appealing than the idea. “I began to feel that they did nothing but talk about things of no significance, about trying to organize protests of affairs on the campus, and so on. … The meetings were interminable.” Bohm left the party after several months, but he remained a Marxist in his political convictions for many years afterward.
