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Eurocommunism

Eurocommunism was an attempt in the 1970s by various European communist parties, notably the Italian Communist Party to widen their appeal by embracing middle-class themes and rejecting unquestioning support of the Soviet Union.

Table of contents

1 A Trotskyist criticism of eurocommunism 2 Further reading 3 References

A Trotskyist criticism of eurocommunism

Ernest Mandel in From Stalinism to Eurocommunism: The Bitter Fruits of 'Socialism in One Country' views eurocommunism as a subsequent development of the mistaken, from the Trotskyist point of view, decision taken by the Soviet Union in 1924 to abandon the goal of world revolution and concentrate on social and economic development of the Soviet Union, so-called, "Socialism in One Country". Thus the eurocommunists of the Italian and French Communist parties are considered as nationalist movements who together with the Soviet Union have abandoned internationalism as did the social democrat parties of the Second International during the First World War when they supported their national governments in prosecution of the war.

Further reading

• Ernest Mandel, 'From Stalinism to Eurocommunism: The Bitter Fruits of 'Socialism in One Country' '', NLB, 1978, hardcover, ISBN 0860910059; trade paperback, ISBN 0860910105

References

• "A Trotskyist criticism" is adapted from the Wikinfo article, "Eurocommunism, the Trotskyist criticism"http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Eurocommunism%2C_the_Trotskyist_criticism

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