

(The politics and the organization of the italian communists, Rome 1979). Berlinguer, For the Socialism in the peace and the Democracy Throughtout Italy and Europe).Īccording to the Italian revisionists, the road to achieve this "society" is "the line laid down by the Republican Constitution to lead Italy to the road of its transformation into a socialist society based on political democracy". The task of the workers' movement in Western Europe, Berlinguer declares, is "to find new roads of advance towards socialism and the construction of socialism" (E. And it results that the third phase has begun now with Eurocommunism. Berlinguer, For the Socialism in the Peace and the Democracy Throughtout Italy and Europe).īut this, too, according to him should be looked at critically in view of the history and the reality of the Soviet Union, because this experience is not valid, either. "The second phase," continues Berlinguer, "opens with the Russian Revolution of October. capitulated in the face of the First World War and various kinds of nationalism.


We have had the experience of the Second International: the first phase of the struggle of the workers' movement to emerge from, capitalism. "I'in referring," he says, "to a fortunate expression. gives a rather more complete explanation of what he and his associates mean by this third road.

Speaking about the third road., which consists of the new strategy of Eurocommunist revisionism, in his report entitled "For Socialism in Peace and Democracy.", delivered at the 15 th Congress of the ICP, Berlinguer. The Constitution of the Bourgeois State. a separate current of modern revisionism, a current which conforms more to the interests of the bourgeosie of the developed capitalist countries, such as the countries of Western Europe, the Italian, French and Spanish revisionist parties also have certain specific features. This is the case also with the parties which are now known under the name of Eurocommunist parties. REFORMIST IDEOLOGY AND POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM - FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EUROCOMMUNIST PARTIESĪs we saw, modern revisionism is expressed in various currents and assumes different appearances according to the concrete political and socio-economic conditions of each country or group of countries. MIA REFERENCE SECTION - Enver Hoxha: 'Eurocommunism' is Anti-Communism - pt.
