Fascist influence in the CPRF?

[MustCrushCapitalism]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin

This guy here apparently has been influential in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation's turn to nationalism... thoughts? It seems to me like the CPRF is borderline fascist in more than a few areas.

[Red Future]

Yes the KPRF has long been pandering to Right Wing ideas under a left wing facade.When exactly is though a question in itself complex(I personally guess around 1996 when Zyuganov almost beat Yeltsin in the elections.)

Ismail posted something about the Red-Brown alliance in post-Soviet Russia in a thread I cant locate ages ago. You might want to ask him.

http://mltoday.com/subject-areas/communist-forum/time-to-change-course-281.html

This was written by Zyuganov in 2007 ?.Notice the unashamedly nationalist appeal in it.

[Robespierre Richard]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin

This guy here apparently has been influential in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation's turn to nationalism... thoughts? It seems to me like the CPRF is borderline fascist in more than a few areas.

Apparently how? He was in the NBP until 1998 and after that was just a free agent who made statements on things and did academic work. After leaving the NBP he was an advisor to the Duma chairman Seleznev for a few months, and he was a CPRF member, but that's the only connection that I could find.

Unfortunately, at this time the only choice really does seem to be Putin, Navalny-Zyuganov-Dugin-Limonov-Liberals, or Kurginyan. The non-CPRF left is supporting the movement led by liberal+nationalist Navalny and his supporters who are liberals, black-yellow-white nationalists led by the likes of Limonov of NBP fame, and CPRF that is against "orange attitudes" nominally but so far finds the only alternative to be sitting on its thumbs.

[Omsk]

The KPRF is in my opinion,a simple nationalist populist oportunist party.They want wotes,arm chairs and money.

But i am sure they have a lot of members who are genuine Communists,Leninists.

They use the Soviet symbols,Che Guevara,J.V Stalin and yet they have relations with a Titoist party.

However,they are a huge party,and have 20% support,which is also a lot,and in their ranks are probably people of various political backgrounds.I am sure they are left-wing nationalists,but i dont know how many of their higher ranked members are actual fascists.

For instance,i know that some of the Leningrad members criticized the higher party members for authoritarianism.

[Die Neue Zeit]

Once Zyuganov departs the scene (hopefully soon), what will be the ideological makeup of the KPRF?

[Robespierre Richard]

Once Zyuganov departs the scene (hopefully soon), what will be the ideological makeup of the KPRF?

Probably Yuschenko (http://twitter.com/Yushchenko_A) and other career politicians will take over and put in a figurehead that appeals to large swathes of the electorate?

[Red Future]

The KPRF is in my opinion,a simple nationalist populist oportunist party.They want wotes,arm chairs and money.

But i am sure they have a lot of members who are genuine Communists,Leninists.

They use the Soviet symbols,Che Guevara,J.V Stalin and yet they have relations with a Titoist party.

However,they are a huge party,and have 20% support,which is also a lot,and in their ranks are probably people of various political backgrounds.I am sure they are left-wing nationalists,but i dont know how many of their higher ranked members are actual fascists.

For instance,i know that some of the Leningrad members criticized the higher party members for authoritarianism.

I think the only way to aptly describe the KPRF electorate is not homogeneous.Recently some Nationalist's (particularly the youth) have started to vote for them, in the recent Duma election this was widely noticed.

Then there is the usually old age electorate of USSR nostalgic's who appear to have been the bedrock of KPRF support since the early 1990s.Mixed in with this the sprinkling of more "Communist" supporters alongside the Nationalists.Though I would argue that they are greatly outnumbered by Nationalists in terms of numbers.

[Ocean Seal]

Once Zyuganov departs the scene (hopefully soon), what will be the ideological makeup of the KPRF?
Great man theory my friend. I assume that it won't change much since the leading bureaucrats are under reactionary influences.