Word: togliatti
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...capitalism can do most for Italy's new and growing middle class. Despite this slight pull to the right, Premier Fanfanrs alliance had weathered its first test at the polls. His Christian Democrats' vote dipped a bit, but their coalition partners did well. As Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti complained, the elections reflected an unmistakable "moderate tendency...
...Communists were bitterly disappointed. After Red votes swung the election to moderate Leftist Giovanni Gronchi in 1955, Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti cried: "When it comes to choosing a President, we are the ones who choose." Last week, after the Reds backed Saragat in a futile maneuver aimed at pulling him farther left than Centrist Fanfani would be willing to go, the Communist boast had turned hollow...
...some, Amendola is not a liberalizer but merely an opportunist who seeks to oust Togliatti. "He wants neither a Stalinist nor an anti-Stalinist party." says one critic. "He wants a nice, homemade Communism that knows how to play the game in the Italian manner-that is, with a card up its sleeve...
Balancing Act. Most of the aces are still held by Togliatti. 68. He too advocates Communist diversity-in fact, he coined a word to describe it: "poly-centrism"-but he does not go so far as Amendola. Once an ardent Stalinist, Togliatti smoothly switched to supporting Khrushchev, and the Italian party was one of the first to denounce Khrushchev's ideological enemies, the Red Chinese and the Albanians. Not that there is much personal warmth between him and the Kremlin boss. Several years ago, Togliatti routinely began his day by asking his staff: "What new mess has our peasant...
Dexterously balancing between the Stalinists and the renovators, Togliatti has retained his hold on the party leadership, which seems less interested in protecting Marxist purity than in pursuing, along with much of the nation, a middle-class standard of living. Bologna's Communist Mayor Giuseppe Dozza, for instance, speaks not of overthrowing capitalism, but of inviting Christian Democrats into the city administration, repairing roads, luring new private industry...