Is the Democrat Party influenced by Marx?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm afraid to say I don't really know enough about Thai politics to comment, though I thought it was a conservative party, not Marxist?

Shouldn't this be in the International board, anyway?

The Democrat Party is much more Mongkut than Marx.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The question is not: 

ARE Democrats Marxists/Socialists

The question is:
Is the Democrat Party influenced by Marx?

Much easier bar to clear. 

And it's clearly not. It's decidedly on the right wing of the Thai political spectrum, as Joe said.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

But seriously, modernity itself is influenced by Marx. Profoundly. (It's also influenced by, for example, Newton, Voltaire, Comte.) If any more profoundly in the case of the Democratic Party than in other cases, only by a trivial amount, relatively speaking.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Ayn Rand was actually intensely anti-gay, though I haven't made enough of a study of her to be sure why exactly.