Clothing Line Names

No man, those are ostentatious names, like another clothing line I heard called Seattle Socialites. While I like the clothes the name is just the opposite of what A is looking for here. Sort of like using nomenclatura.

The nomenklatura were a small, élite subset of the general population of Party members in the Soviet Union, having more authority and claiming higher privileges as precisely the same kind of ruling class which Communist doctrine denounced in the "Capitalist" West. Trotskyists acknowledged this distinction, although they preferred the term caste rather than class (see New class).


After the fall of the Communist regimes in central and eastern Europe, the political apparatus that kept the nomenklatura in their positions collapsed with it. Most of the nomenklatura retained their administrative positions. Some were able to use their influence to acquire positions in the new government or secure lucrative positions in formerly state-owned industries.

This evolution can be explained by noticing that the nomenklatura were basically the executives of communist regimes, people having:
stronger than average managerial abilities
ambition to pursue a professional career, which at some point required being part of the nomenklatura
a lot of respect versus hierarchies
advanced networking skills, as goods and supplies had to be fought for, be it toilet paper or industrial supplies for a factory. This required lots of interpersonal communication.

Outside of the nomenklatura were only basic jobs or people lacking the above abilities. Therefore, it was quite natural for the nomenklatura to adapt to post-communist regimes, because it consisted in pursuing the same objectives without the need to defend a specific ideology (which most of them did not believe anyway).


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