Eurocommunism

Eurocommunism is communism as expressed in Europe.

In the mid-1970's the Eurocommunist parties were proclaimed to be on the march across Southern Europe and were on the verge of gaining strong government roles from Greece through Italy, France, Spain and Portugal. By the late 1980's, none of the Eurocommunist parties holds even a minor share of national power. In the 1976 general election more than one-third of the Italian electorate vote Communist. In the 1979 general election they won 1.5 million few votes. And in the local elections held in June 1988 the Communist Party of Italy won one third less votes than in 1979.

1. The Eurocommunist parties can either recoil from the challenges facing them and accept becoming isolated parties backed by a dwindling minority of voters or they can accept the painful changes being demanded by changes in the communist block. This would mean, in effect, discarding class warfare and accepting to work within a democratic and modern capitalistic system and in doing so ceasing to be communists.

1. Communism

1. National communism