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That last subject brought on an unseemly little squabble between the Kremlin and Santiago Carrillo, 62, leader of the Spanish Communist Party. Carrillo complained that he had been barred, at the last minute, from addressing the gathering. Like Italian Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, Carrillo had planned to defend his party's independence from Moscow. But no sooner had he submitted the speech to the translators, said Carrillo, than the Russians changed their minds and asked him if he would like to deliver it at a factory instead. Carrillo declined...
Past Transgressions. While the Soviets were angry with Carrillo for his book, as well as his past transgressions, the New Times diatribe was clearly a signal both to other Communist parties in Western Europe and to Moscow's captive regimes in the East. Spanish party leaders who have traveled in Eastern Europe lately have met chilly and even hostile official receptions just about everywhere they have gone outside Tito's Yugoslavia and Nicolae Ceausescu's Rumania. Says one such traveler: "I got the feeling that the governments didn't know how to react and were waiting...
...what is bad for Moscow is by no means automatically good for Washington. Like the other Eurocommunists, Santiago Carrillo, maverick though he may be, is ultimately as opposed to Western systems as he is to the Soviet dictatorship...
...Santiago Carrillo's 218-page Eurocommunism and the State is the strongest written argument for Eurocommunism yet made by one of its leading proponents. The book sounds all the familiar Eurocommunist themes: independence from Moscow, democratic plurality, universal suffrage, respect for human rights. But the Spanish Communist leader goes much further: he flatly rejects the Soviet Union as a model for Western European Communism, calling instead for a socialist but democratic Western Europe that is dominated by neither the Soviet Union nor the U.S. He examines the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat and finds it undemocratic...
...same time, Carrillo gives the West plenty to think about. He explicitly points out, for instance, that Communists must not be confused with Social Democrats, and in effect he demolishes the notion, harbored by some Western observers, that Eurocommunism is committed to peaceful change in all situations. Excerpts...