They're populists, basically.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm fond of Zyuganov as I would be of a crotchedly but lovable old uncle.
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> It means that Marxism, as a self-identified
> political
> force to be reckoned with in the labor and radical
> movement, is dead. The era of large movements,
> parties, currents in movements, much less states
> that
> identify themselves as Marxist is any plausible way
> that might be recognizable to Marx or Engels (who
> didn't call themselves Marxists), or to the
> generations following where political effective
> states
> and forces did, is largely over.
>
> China and Vietnam kept only the name. Cuba is
> hanging
> on by its teeth and eyebrows. There's Kerela, but
> it's
> not the wave of the future even for India. Big
> Communist or Marxist parties in noncommunist
> societies
> that have influence and again are recognizable
> Marxists (not, for example, the current Russian CP)
> are on the decline and have been for over 50 years.
>
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