sentences:  In this sense Parsons was described by Carter as an "almost fundamentalist" Thelemite who placed "The Book of the Law"s dogma above all other doctrine.From early on in his career, Parsons took an interest in socialism and communism, views that he shared with his friend Frank Malina.Under the influence of another friend, Sidney Weinbaum, the two joined a communist group in the late 1930s, with Parsons reading Marxist literature, but he remained unconvinced and refused to join the American Communist Party.