It does not exclusively say how many members there are in the party, as Laski does not want to share this information with Didion (63), but if it were to be estimated, it would be nowhere near as many members as another political party. For a revolution to begin, they need power, and that comes from money or people, or, in Laski's case, workers. The group needed funds to promote itself, but could barely accomplish anything. People live their lives, without thinking about starting a revolution. Workers try to survive in the current bourgeois society. The party tried to raise money to support their revolution, and when one of the days Didion was at the International Workers' Bookshop, one of the members was selling newspapers from People's Voice. During four hours of trying to sell the Voice of the People, the party member managed to sell only 75 newspapers to raise a total of “Nine dollars and ninety-one cents” (64). The group also had a small collection of weapons in the back of the bookstore, but that was only for the group's safety. If the party continued to derive funds from newspaper sales, it would go nowhere and the revolution would never begin. To earn more money for the communist party, Laski collected all the funds raised by the group and took them all to Las Vegas. He tried gambling to earn more, but lost everything