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...Santiago Carrillo, 63, secretary-general of the Spanish Communist Party (P.C.E.) for the past 18 years and Moscow's least favorite Eurocommunist, any imminent return to the ranks was unlikely, as his re-election at week's end proved without question. But those final sentences in Carrillo's wide-ranging opening report to the party's ninth congress in Madrid last week, the first held in Spain since 1932, did carry something of a plea. In effect, he asked the more than 1,400 delegates to endorse a political line that, by Communist criteria, continues...
...drop the party's "Leninist" label in favor of "Marxist, democratic and revolutionary." Even prior to the congress, the proposal, which is known as Thesis XV, had upset several provincial and regional party conferences. The furor was not only over the concept itself, one striking even by Eurocommunist standards, but also over sometimes heavy-handed manipulation by the leadership to put the point across. In defense of his Thesis, Carrillo argued that the party's identity was not being lost and Lenin was not being abandoned. Rather, according to Carrillo, the label change merely reflected new circumstances...
When accused of violating human rights, Marxist-Leninists have usually retorted that once true Communism is established, the dictatorship of the proletariat will disappear, leaving the individual genuinely free for the first time. Meanwhile, though, these facts raise hard questions about the true intentions of the so-called Eurocommunist parties of Italy, France and Spain: after decades of being apologists for totalitarianism, they now profess their commitments to democratic principles. Purged from their platforms is the once obligatory rhetoric calling for violent revolution and a dictatorship of the proletariat. Italian Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer has said that under...
...middle-of-the-road Democratic Center Union, which fell to 12% of the vote and won only 15 seats. On the far right, the new National Rally Party won 7% and five seats; on the far left, Greece's two Communist parties-one Moscow-lining, the other Eurocommunist in outlook and running jointly with other splinter groups-garnered 12% and 13 seats...
...Eurocommunist on the road...