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...party member from the rear of the crowded ballroom: "Let's talk about Stalinists and anti-Stalinists!" The challenge shocked the 4,000 comrades who jammed Bologna's ornate 13th century Palazzo del Podestá. For as long as he could, the speaker, Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, ignored the interruption and continued his prepared address on national politics. Just before he finished, Togliatti replied to the heckler: "We are for the socialist revolution, which has opened the road to a new society. This society has been built by the Soviet Union. Who built it-the Stalinists...
...group of militant Communists fears that successful center-left cooperation would weaken the party by weaning away thousands of rank-and-file supporters, favors discrediting the alliance before it is launched (by demanding more radical reforms than the new coalition can support). A more moderate group, which includes Togliatti, argues: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, on the theory that the apertura can later be widened to include Communists as well...
...supporters (one-fifth of the total Italian vote in 1958), and an income of $50 million a year from dues, investments and Soviet subsidies make it the largest, most influential Communist Party in the free world. It is also the fattest and most bourgeois, charge its critics. Years ago, Togliatti's double-breasted suits had become the symbol of Italy's "respectable" Communism, seeking power not through revolution but in Parliament and at the polls. These days, more and more Italian comrades wear well-cut grey flannel, while their women appear at party functions in modish sweaters with...
...extreme are a minority of diehard Stalinists, longing for the early postwar years when Communist partisans expectantly scrawled signs, "Ha da veni' Baffone"-Big Mustache (Stalin) is coming. They blame Khrushchev's coexistence politics for shattering the unity of the Soviet bloc. Togliatti's support of Khrushchev, says Senior Stalinist Mauro Scoccimarro, 66, has "created confusion within the party." Scorning Togliatti's parliamentary tactics, the Stalinists still prefer the revolutionary road to victory. Like Scoccimarro. most of the old guard are veterans of Mussolini's jails, but some are young toughs who shouted...
Also opposing Khrushchev and Togliatti, but for different reasons, are a growing number of young radicals who almost captured control of the party in 1960 and who, since the Moscow Congress last fall, have returned to the attack. Charging the Italian Communist leadership with "coresponsibility" for Stalin's crimes, the so-called "renovators"' demand democratization of internal party affairs, greater freedom from Soviet dictation. Leader of the renovators is burly Giorgio Amendola, 54, a skillful organizer who has never visited Russia or its satellites and has no desire to do so because, he says, low living standards "depress...