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Suddenly, the battle within the party was joined. Communist Historian Jean Elleinstein launched a three-part Le Monde series. In it, he caustically observed that there had been "more centralism than democracy" in Communism's history and asked whether the French party could not now accommodate more debate, lest it continue to lose rank-and-file voters. Philosopher Louis Althusser, a party hardliner, joined the criticism with his own Le Monde series, and Jacques Frémontier, editor of a Communist magazine for factory workers, resigned in protest over Marchais's handling of the election...
...protesters in the French Communist Party"; there are only loyal "comrades who discuss." Contradicting his earlier condemnation of the critics, Marchais contended that "it is possible to have good politics in our party only to the extent that each person can press his own ideas freely." Noting that Archcritic Elleinstein was at the fete, busily autographing books, Marchais called his presence "obvious proof of the democracy that reigns within the breast of the party...
...most telling J'accuse has been an analysis in Le Monde by Communist Historian Jean Elleinstein, deputy director of Paris' Center for Marxist Studies and the intellectual leader of the French party's "liberal" wing. He charged that the party's rule-from-the-top doctrine of "democratic centralism" is too central and insufficiently democratic. The party, he added, should loosen its ties to Moscow. "Socialism exists only in a very imperfect form in the Soviet Union," Elleinstein wrote, "and it is thus not a model but an antimodel...
...Elleinstein's jabs were sharpest against Marchais. Instead of following a soak-the-rich line, he argued, the Communist chief should have done as his Italian counterpart, Enrico Berlinguer, is now doing, extending the party's embrace to include the middle class. Said Elleinstein: "Workers sometimes own their apartments, even a place in the country. They are not always at ease with the party's working class language...
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