The party does not care too
The party does not care too much about your past, or your personal life ( the vanguard parties do care about that ) the main concern of the party on the membership application is to be sure that you understand what socialism is, and what is the difference between capitalism and socialism, and to understand that our immediate and future program is socialism, we do support reforms that might benefits the workers, but our main objective is not reformism. Che Guevara defined socialism in the same manner that can be described by a priest, or a philanthropic group, and the Bolsheviks and the Maoists they twisted it completely. I heard a speech given by Fidel Castro at the University of Havana presenting his view and definition on socialism, and Marxism, and my conclusion was that Gorbachev could have done a much better job. I do not think anyone of them can be called revolutionary socialists, even that they have an enormous popular support.Most of the party members come from a different background and we might accept the application of a person that is in jail if that person is willing to join the party and he or she answers the questions properly. Karl Marx was a liberal bourgeois and he became a socialist later one.John Lennon musical compositions might be revolutionaries because their lyrics were different to others, but they can not be used in order to make any basic changes in our society, the same thing was Lenin, he was a revolutionary nationalist , but he was not a revolutionary socialist, and his works will not make any changes in our capitalist mode of production, on the contrary, it is not a good example for the working class.To be a left winger is not a guarantee that a person is a socialist, and most of the left wingers groups have spent their whole life supporting reforms, and any uprising, any social discontent they call it revolution, they were left wingers Leninist groups supporting Saddam Hussein because he was an anti-imperialist and a revolutionary nationalist.