In the context of this quote, he’s talking to a right winger and being facetious. The right winger tells Linus that NYTimes is ‘woke communist propaganda’ and Linus declares himself to be a ‘woke communist’ for liking to read NYTimes. If liking New York Times, makes you a communist, then yeah he’s a communist. There is no indication that he actually supports communism.
In the context of this quote, he’s talking to a right winger and being facetious. The right winger tells Linus that NYTimes is ‘woke communist propaganda’ and Linus declares himself to be a ‘woke communist’ for liking to read NYTimes. If liking New York Times, makes you a communist, then yeah he’s a communist. There is no indication that he actually supports communism.
https://itsfoss.com/news/linus-torvalds-woke-communists/