Well that makes him a moderate.
I recently learned that a member of the nomenklatura under Brezhnev was fired by Brezhnev and worked closely with Gorbachev who is really nothing more than a Leninist in warm and fuzzy attire.
two pieces of good news:
"A 2003 video series put on by the Peace Studies program and orchestrated by Targ featured the video, The Crash of Civil Liberties Since 9/11 by radical Lynne Stewart, an admirer of Lenin and Castro, whose has been indicted by the Justice Department for aiding and abetting the terrorist responsible for the first bombing of the World trade Center in 1993."
Stewart was convicted and David Horowitz has Academia in his sights.