Italian Communist Party Partito Comunista Italiano | |
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| Abbreviation | PCd'I (Italian) |
| Founded | 21 January 1921 |
| Dissolved | 3 February 1991 |
| Newspaper | l'Unità |
| Youth wing | Communist Youth Federation |
| Political orientation | Marxism-Leninism Revolutionary socialism Later: Eurocommunism Revisionism Reformism |
The Italian Communist Party (PCd'I) was a Marxist-Leninist, later Eurocommunist, party in Italy. It originated in a split from the Italian Socialist Party in 1921, when the pro-Comintern faction split off and formed the PCd'I.
The PCd'I eventually turned to revisionism and Eurocommunism; the party continued to exist in revisionist form until 1991, when the fall of the Warsaw pact resulted in the leadership fully capitulating to liberalism.
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During the Prague Spring, the PCd'I defended Alexander Dubček's revisionist policies and described NATO as a defensive alliance. It later supported Gorbachyov's rejection of class struggle.[1]
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- ↑ Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny (2010). Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union: 'Turning Point, 1987-88' (p. 154). [PDF] iUniverse.com. ISBN 9781450241717