Eurocommunism

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Eurocommunism was a reformist current within Western European communist parties during the 1970s that sought greater independence from the Soviet Union and embraced more democratic, pluralist, and parliamentary approaches to socialism.

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Label Occurrences
Eurocommunism canonical 5
Eurocommunist parties 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf current within communism
left-wing ideology
political ideology
reformist current
criticizedBy Soviet leadership
orthodox communist parties
some revolutionary Marxist groups
declinedInDecade 1980s
developedInContextOf Cold War
Western European welfare states
détente
emergedInDecade 1970s
hasCharacteristic acceptance of multi-party democracy
critique of authoritarianism in existing socialist states
dialogue with social democracy
distance from Moscow line
emphasis on national roads to socialism
opposition to violent revolution in advanced democracies
rejection of Soviet model of socialism
support for broad left alliances
support for civil liberties
willingness to work within parliamentary systems
hasGoal democratic socialism
greater independence from the Soviet Union
parliamentary road to socialism
political pluralism
hasMainRegion Western Europe
influenced European left-wing parties
debates on democratic socialism
evolution of some communist parties into democratic socialist parties
influencedBy Communist Party of France
surface form: French Communist Party

Italian Communist Party
New Left
Communist Party of Spain
surface form: Spanish Communist Party

Western parliamentary democracy
crisis of legitimacy of the Soviet Union
post-1968 political climate in Europe
opposedTo Soviet-style one-party rule
Stalin era
surface form: Stalinism

strict democratic centralism as practiced in the USSR
peakInfluencePeriod mid-1970s
relatedTo Italian historic compromise strategy
democratic socialism
reform communism
social democracy
supported electoral competition
freedom of expression
human rights
trade union pluralism

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hoxhaism opposes Eurocommunism
Italian Communist Party ideology Eurocommunism
Georges Marchais ideology Eurocommunism
Nicos Poulantzas politicalAlignment Eurocommunism
Communist and Allies Group hasMemberParty Eurocommunism
this entity surface form: Eurocommunist parties