I would bet that was this guy. Bukowski's deal was being a sexist, crotchety, debilitating alcoholic. His writing is famous cause he wrote a lot and he writes in a super unique prose that's somewhere on the poetry spectrum with topics such as betting on horse races and a hard boiled detective that keeps getting distracted by sex and booze.
Nothing I've read from him indicates that he would be a communist. He was just smart enough and ornery enough to see clear truths like this.
That’s workers rights and unions. You do not need a massive overhaul of the whole society according to antiquated and mostly failed ideas to have the civil work conditions.
If majority of people in America do not want better workers protection by voting how could they ever agree to communism?
First focus on the small and relatively easy steps, like defeating trump.