> Of course. They're a big SocDem party.
When the KPRF joins the Socialist International like the Sandinistas, I'll call them a social democratic party. They never will. Suzi Weissman, who wrote a bio of Victor Serge, call them "red-brown." as do many others. That you anathmatize as all Western idiots, whether or not they are Western, as many there do too. Screw the KPRF and its nostalgist illusions. Russia needs a mass rad left/socialist/communist party w/o such nationalist, racist baggage as Z has with his alliances, political and ideological w/ such reactionaries. "The Black Hundreds, " by Walter Laqueur. http://www.google.com/search?q=Yanov+red-brown http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/politics-2003.cfm http://www.bu.edu/iscip/vol9/Proshechkin.html Fascism Gets Boost from Communists By YEVGENI PROSHECHKIN (1) Chairman, Moscow Antifascism Center http://www.bu.edu/iscip/pubseries/12intro.html Alexander Yanov's, "The Puzzles of Patriotic Communism: Gennadi Zyuganov, The Russian Milosevic? http://www.bu.edu/iscip/pubseries/GennadiZyuganov.Pub12.html I'm not gonna fight w/ you on this, now, Go to the Moscow Zoo and wrestle w/ the alligators. "See 'ya later, Alligator...After while Crocodile...