Although at least for the time before the fall of the SU, according to the Wiki, Zyuganov doesn't sound too bad, but I bet after the dissolution he and others still in leadership positions now must've signed a pact with the devil, so to speak, to survive till this day.
Zyuganov emerged as a leading critic of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost in the party's Agitation and Propaganda division (later the Ideological division), a hotbed of opposition to reform. As the party began to crumble in the late 1980s, Zyuganov took the side of hard-liners against reforms that would ultimately culminate in the end of CPSU rule and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In May 1991, he published a fiercely critical piece on Alexander Yakovlev.
Zyuganov wrote several influential papers in the early 1990s attacking Boris Yeltsin and calling for a return to the socialism of the pre-Gorbachev days. In July 1991, he signed the "A Word to the People" declaration.
He wasn’t, he says kinda based things even now, but the party itself is very meh. I’m actually interested to see what would they do if they win, so that’s why voot.
Also allegedly he likes Fukuyama lel. He is not a marxist in any case, and reactionary socially I’m like 95 % sure
So basically one could say they have become paper tigers lacking ideological clarity and conviction, right?
Like so many communist parties active in todays parliamentary systems.
But yeah, in the end, they can't do much worse than Putin's oligarchy. So yeah.
Sure, if the word was not associated with other guys, I would classify them natsocdems, they have this weird patriotic fixation that bugs me. I don’t think they had clarity to begin with, they are brezhnev creatures stylistically and in essence, so :shrug: . They can do worse, in that they will fuck once again word communist for new generation, which is why I’m slightly concerned that they would be completely ineffective. Like they don’t support strikes on national level, or agitate among workers, so their electoral support is against something, not for something
Oh, yeah, those are very good points. I have to admit that my knowledge of details of Russian internal politics is rather lacking, so that sucks to learn.
But thanks for educating me a bit here anyways.
Although at least for the time before the fall of the SU, according to the Wiki, Zyuganov doesn't sound too bad, but I bet after the dissolution he and others still in leadership positions now must've signed a pact with the devil, so to speak, to survive till this day.
He wasn’t, he says kinda based things even now, but the party itself is very meh. I’m actually interested to see what would they do if they win, so that’s why voot.
Also allegedly he likes Fukuyama lel. He is not a marxist in any case, and reactionary socially I’m like 95 % sure
So basically one could say they have become paper tigers lacking ideological clarity and conviction, right?
Like so many communist parties active in todays parliamentary systems.
But yeah, in the end, they can't do much worse than Putin's oligarchy. So yeah.
Sure, if the word was not associated with other guys, I would classify them natsocdems, they have this weird patriotic fixation that bugs me. I don’t think they had clarity to begin with, they are brezhnev creatures stylistically and in essence, so :shrug: . They can do worse, in that they will fuck once again word communist for new generation, which is why I’m slightly concerned that they would be completely ineffective. Like they don’t support strikes on national level, or agitate among workers, so their electoral support is against something, not for something
Oh, yeah, those are very good points. I have to admit that my knowledge of details of Russian internal politics is rather lacking, so that sucks to learn.
But thanks for educating me a bit here anyways.