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Foreign Communists everywhere, in their hour of distress, are crying for a "true Marxist analysis" of First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev's sensational speech (TIME, June 11) at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party. Last week they got the beginnings of one from Marxist Pietro Nenni, leader of the Italian Red Socialist Party. It struck with shattering force into the foundations of the "back to Lenin" movement which Khrushchev, Tito et al. are promoting as a substitute for Stalinism...
...lengthy article in his party journal Hondo Operaio, Nenni called the Khrushchev speech "the gravest and most dramatic document in the Communist literature of the world." Through most of his article Nenni refers to Khrushchev as "K," as though he were a symbolic figure in a Kafka fantasy. "From the revelations of K," says Nenni, "we learn that the guest of the Kremlin appears to have been practically a maniac who, like the figure of the dictator in which Charlie Chaplin portrayed Hitler, 'drew plans on a map of the world.' K cannot contain his laughter...
Unjustified Terror. Nenni sees "one of the main results of the K report to be the fact that the polemic on the cult of personality no longer makes sense." Why? Because it lacks "any historical reconstruction of the moment in which all power was transferred to Stalin." In Nenni's eyes, K is obviously a crude apparatchick incapable of making a proper "Marxist analysis." Asking how and why Stalin grabbed his despotic power, Nenni dismisses Khrushchev's explanation that Khrushchev and his gang "saw these problems in a different way at different times." Says Nenni: "This answer...
...Nenni's Communist-linked Socialist Party had won a sizable vote in last month's Italian municipal elections. Its support could help the ruling Christian Democratic coalition to form governments in the more than 100 large Italian cities where no single party now has a clear-cut majority. The Christian Democrats were still spurning Nenni's aid, but Nenni thought that the Social Democrats (now one of three junior partners in the Christian Democratic coalition) might be willing to accept his tainted help. He addressed a letter to "Caro Matteo...
Many Social Democrats, including Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, the party's leader, were far from happy to see Matteotti negotiating with Stalin Peace Prize winner Nenni. And right from the start, Nenni flatly refused to meet the most critical Social Democratic condition for collaboration-a demand that he break his "unity of action" pact with the Communists. Matteotti, carefully leaving the door open to further negotiations, said that the first round of talks produced "no ruptures and no miracles." At week's end, however, Saragat stepped in to make it clear that neither he nor the Social Democratic...