moression of many.
-rench colours'. orship of the proletariat' from the party programme.
Reacting to this news, the •ne New York Times said: 'However one appraises the sincerity of the changed nage the rench communists seek to aroject, the historic nature of the change "ine is undentadie...• : nue that the aim of the congress was to a ve ine impression or a new course.
French CP chief George Marchais told ine congress voted to recommend dropping any mention of the ¿ vergences' between the French and io give lessons to anyone, acceot any Trom anvone'. : -e name of the 'Communist ideal' :-e 'happiness of man', Marchais criticsed the Kremlin's brutal suppression » political dissent. Historic Compromise • 7 approaching ine signiticance or ine =rench CP congress, .- mina inal ine ceneral aporoach oulI'ned there is being followed by most of •re Western CPs. The British CP. example, published an article by former leader John Gollan in the January Issue o its theoretical magazine criticising ine treatment of dissidents in the USSR, :he remnants of 'anti-semitism' and the general lack of democratic rights. The leaders of the Italian and Spanish Communist Parties have been attempting for years to demonstrate some independence from 'Moscow' in order to gain acceptance from those capitalist …nev SeeK The ltalian CP has gone so 'ar in pursuit of its 'historic compromise' » h the Christian Democrats Economist ran an article last December urging non-Communist parties in Europe io seriously ponder whether the Italian Communists may not have taken on a role -ormally associated in Northern Europe. mich the Social Democrats..'.
he question raised by ine economist is the basic one that must be answered - analysing the meaning of the line now being followed by the Communist Parties o: Western Europe. nese parties and Moscow dissolving? Are they developing into Social Democratic Parties like the ones currentiy i- Britain or Sweden?
dancie The French Communist Party Congress Stalinism Certainly the Communist Parties, Social Democrats, make no secret » their desire to help administer the capitalist system as they e ectoral alliances as in ltaly. -e ormism, however, =rom Social Democratic retormism anc responds to different pressures.
S:alinism, itself, is the result of the degeneration of the Soviet party and state : rai developed in the 1920s. =-reaucratic caste that arose in the war :arn country wanted only =i~ privileges within the borders of the *over nice This turn away from any =erspective of world revolution was, in December 1924, elevated to the a theory when Stalin proclaimed (in ce ance or ine bolsneviks' iraaltion) -= possibility of '..socialism in one -nis concept inevitably led the burto view the Comintern not as = as toreign supporter on or parties =.: as 'foreign supporters' =-aric moves. Trotsky, -e deadly logic of such a new policy. co - :ed out: 'The new doctrine proclaims a: socialism can be built on the a single state. -:ervention. From this there can and --s: follow... a collaborationist policy awards the foreign bourgeoisie with -e object of averting intervention, s " ill guarantee the construction of =x alism.. The task of the parties of :-= Comintern assumes, Many character; their mission is to ine USSR from intervention & is something new happening in the West European Communist Parties? This is the especially after the Twenty-Second Congress of the French CP, -eld in a Paris suburb early in February. Declaring a policy of 'Communism under the editors of