Euro communism: Linking democracy and socialism

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

07/13/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

Political science

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Summary :

Introduction
The parliamentary road to socialism
The emergence of the early Euro communist tendencies
The vanguard-insurrectionary communists
The failure of the Soviet version of communism
The new Euro communist agenda
Third road model
Eurocommunism and Lenin style ideologies
The PCF in France
Conclusion
Bibliography

Abstract

Simply speaking, euro communism was a political trend that developed in the 1970s and 1980s in many of the Western European communist parties as a way of applying their political agenda in a way that would be more acceptable in a Western European democracy as it would have less affiliation with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In other words, euro communism sought to break free from its Bolshevik heritage, in fact there is much about it that attacks the Soviet Communist framework. More than anything else, it signals the eclipse of the Leninist tradition in the West. This is because no Bolshevik-style vanguard party has experienced political success in the capitalist political and economic systems. communism in Europe needed a new approach if it was to succeed to the rest of Europe, so euro communism created distance between itself and the Soviet model. This type of euro communism had a commitment to liberal democracy and had a goal of strengthening those states that had been stifled by fascism (Italy and Spain).

This essay will further discuss what euro communism is, why it emerged, and what its fate was. From this it will be clear that euro communism emerged in Europe as a more sensible approach to communism in the wake of the failure of Soviet method of communism, and it grew as a third option, or a way of linking liberal democracy with communism, and from this the communist agenda was able to gain credibility without adhering to the tenets of Stalin, Lenin or other traditional communist interpretations.