Word: eurocommunist
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...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...
...growing tension between Moscow and the increasingly feisty Western parties is bound to complicate Western policymakers' problem of how to view or deal with the Eurocommunist phenomenon. Conceivably, the Soviet denunciation could encourage a relaxed view of Eurocommunism, on the principle that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend...
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...
...condemned the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Hence Moscow's attack on him did not come as a great surprise, although the force of it was. The target of the New Times article was Carrillo's new book. Eurocommunism and the State, a spirited advocacy of the Eurocommunist movement, which maintains that a Marxian society can be pluralistic and independent of Moscow...