Then the grift is to be a party hack and have the party arrange for a nice dacha for you, good schools for the kids. of course, you don't hardly make anything,

Then the grift is to be a party hack and have the party arrange for a nice dacha for you, good schools for the kids. of course, you don't hardly make anything, the party provides, in its benevolence! edit: my point is that grifters show up in any particular structure. not to sling arrows at the USSR or the USA.