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...united and anti-democratic front, with whom there could be no "historic compromise." Ironically, the result of their attitude seems to have been a hitherto-unseen unity among the PCI and the smaller parties of the left, from the workers movement, Lotta Continua, to the intellectual leftists of the Partito Radicale, and even including the Socialists, the habitual enemies...
...influence, if not control, economic policymaking in the next government. (The Paris-based newsmagazine L'Express recently caricatured French Communist Leader Georges Marchais eating spaghetti with a hammer and sickle in anticipation of the boost to his own party.) In its public pronouncements, at least, the Partito Comunista Italiano (P.C.I.) has disowned one of the basic tenets of Marxist economic analysis: that capitalism is in the process of being destroyed by its own contradictions. "This [Italy's economic] crisis is not an invention of the capitalist world," says P.C.I. Economist Eugenic Peggio. "It is an objective event...
...Christian Democrats, led by Aldo Moro, 59, the perennially worried-looking five-time Premier, have the dubious advantage of incumbency. Alone or in coalitions, the Partito Democrazia Cristiana has dominated Italian politics since the end of World War II-to the point that some weary party leaders complain of being "doomed to govern." In the past, the D.C. has often won national elections because middle-class Italian voters who marked the hammer-and-sickle Communist emblem on ballots in local elections as a protest were too afraid to let the Communists come to power when it really mattered...
...enduring recession. Moreover, D.C. governments have lately proved unable to solve a host of economic and social problems: rampant inflation, a sagging lira, mounting national debt, 7% unemployment, inadequate transportation, hospital care and public housing. The party has a tarnished record of providing bad government by aging politicians. The Partito Comunista Italiano has mounted its most serious challenge so far under Berlinguer, the most talked-about politician in Italy at the moment, and perhaps in all of Europe...
...occur until 1980, and it takes the form of a communist coup, instigated by Henry Kissinger, with the support of Moscow and the Vatican. In this Machiavellian satire of an Italy just prior to 1984, the Prince and his courtiers are actual political figures: the head of the Partito Communista Enrico Berlinguer, "the Professor," Giovanni Leone, current president of Italy, and a host of others. By using these Italian politicians for characters, the author sharpens the point of his wit--the more so since, like a good cartoonist, he draws caricatures which are not so exaggerated as to be unimaginable...