A Letter from Italy: "...taking everything in charge."
.. it is almost not a communism in the sense that it is not at all a matter of a system of social and political thought stemming from Soviet Marxism, but a practical policy that, with its...
...it is almost not a communism in the sense that it is not at all a matter of a system of social and political thought stemming from Soviet Marxism, but a practical policy that, with its undulating diversity of means, its finesse, its intelligence, its realism, is totally dominated by the Party's aggressive imperialism...
...It is becoming very clear that it is creating in this way a system of power unique in the world, alongside of which the crude bureaucratic policy of the Soviet type is the mere brutal sloppiness of primitives...
...Eurocommunism is really an evolution of Stalinism, conserving the preeminent, hegemonic role of the party...
...Hence, a very large number of men who call themselves (and who believe they are) Christian Democrats, Socialists, etc., or state officials, industrialists, merchants, etc., live and act under the tenure of the PCI, have become its clientele, and obligated to it, can no longer enter into serious conflict with it without placing in jeopardy their livelihood, standing, and influence...
...With this the relations between Moscow and the PCI have become reversed, in the same way and for the same reasons as the relations between the PCI and the Christian Democrats...
...The PCI has become the dominant party and it penetrates, manipulates, determines all the other forces...
...Such at least is the case for Italy...
...P. P...
...The PCI (Italian Communist party) is taking in hand the entire society with all its conflicts...
...above all, it gives special attention to institutions of all kinds in which it buries and encrusts itself in such a way that it is not content to control them but makes them function to its profit...
...it accepts all the contradictions and nuances...
...The PCI no longer appears to the Soviet bureaucracy as a threat but, in an immediate sense, as an ally, difficult to understand, impossible for the moment to reintegrate into Soviet political and intellectual categories, but an inevitable ally who, in the long run, offers a possible path for the evolution of the bureaucratic system...
Vol. 25 • January 1978 • No. 1
