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...immediate target of Soviet wrath is Spanish Communist Leader Santiago Carrillo. In tones reminiscent of Moscow's strident broadsides against Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito in the late 1940s and '50s, and China's Mao Tse-tung since the '60s, the Soviet weekly New Times blasted Carrillo, his new book Eurocommunism and the State, and the whole notion that Marxist societies can be established in Western Europe that would be independent of the Soviet Union...
...what is bad for Moscow is by no means automatically good for Washington. Like the other Eurocommunists, Santiago Carrillo, maverick though he may be, is ultimately as opposed to Western systems as he is to the Soviet dictatorship...
...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...
...Leonid Brezhnev in Paris grumbled about the U.S., that was nothing compared with the tongue-lashing administered by the Kremlin to fellow Communists in Western Europe. An unsigned 5,000-word article in New Times -a Soviet weekly devoted primarily to foreign affairs-savaged Spanish Communist Party Leader Santiago Carrillo with the kind of language normally reserved for the Chinese. He was charged with advocating "crude anti-Sovietism," making "slanderous allegations" and taking "unsavory positions...
...Santiago Carrillo is probably Western Europe's most independent-minded Communist. He has, for example, openly 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...