[lbo-talk] RE: Soviet nomenklatura privileges

Chris Doss itschris13 at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 10 09:47:05 PDT 2003



> The KPRF does have its youth wing, which
>looks a lot different than the old Komsomol did,
>but for better or worse, the KPRF's main base
>of support is clearly still among the elderly.
>Barkley Rosser

Yes. the Komsomol was actually expelled from the party for being "too extreme" and is now an indepedent political organization.

Zyuganov recently inducted 2,000 children into the Young Pioneers on Red Square.

The KPRF also gets support from a variety of business interests, but that's not electoral support of course, which as you say is mostly pensioners.

Actually, I'm pinning my hopes on Glazyev. If he could replace Zyuganov, I think the party could really go places.

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