Why am I a Communist?

Because I believe in democracy and freedom. I also believe that democracy requires democratic institutions. That should be redundant, but if one glances at the nations and governments of the West, the developed and democratic, civilized nations, one notices the lack of democratic institutions for the majority of the citizens, those citizens that produce the wealth. I mean of course the lack of democracy in the workplace. Yes, we may have political democracy in this country, if you consider two-party "representative democracy" a democracy, but we continue to have feudal-like corporations that really hold the power. Political democracy requires economic democracy, as democracy and freedom are interconnected and all encompassing; if one segment of society is non-democratic or not free, than all society is non-democratic and not free.
"The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody." - Jean Jacques Rousseau.
This demonstrates, I feel, my beliefs that democracy is both political and economic, in that it demonstrates the connection between politics and economics. The first man owns the first mean of production for profit, an economic metaphor, creates a civil society in his image and ideals, a political metaphor of course. This "civil" society then leads to "crimes, wars, and murders." We change the man and his barbaric system and we change society and politics.

Here I will add a quick syllogism to further illustrate my point eloquently and to feed my healthy pretentiousness.
If money is power
And if few members of society have great amounts of money
Then, few members of society have great amounts of power.
That was called oligarchy centuries ago; government by the few, for the few.
Now it is called Capitalism; complete ownership by the few, for the few and dominion of all.
My goal is for a society governed by all, for all.
Optimistic, yes. Impossible, no.
I believe further that only Communism can create this society. I am not the most well-read in Socialist literature, nor do I understand every nook and cranny of a Socialist system, but I do understand democracy and I do love freedom, thus I am a Communist.