Italian Marxist–Leninist Party Partito Marxista–Leninista Italiano | |
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| Abbreviation | PMLI |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Newspaper | Il Bolscevico |
| Political orientation | Marxism–Leninism Mao Zedong Thought Anti-revisionism |
The Italian Marxist–Leninist Party (Italian: Partito Marxista–Leninista Italiano, PMLI) is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in Italy. Founded in Florence in 1977, the leading core of the PMLI began their political activity as they joined the Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist) (PCd'I(ml)) in 1967. The group broke away from the PCd'I(ml) in 1969 and formed the Italian Bolshevik Communist Organization Marxist–Leninist (Italian: Organizzazione Comunista Bolscevica Italiana marxista–leninista, OCBIml). In 1977, the OCBIml was transformed into the PMLI. The current General Secretary is Giovanni Scuderi.
The PMLI is opposed to bourgeois democracy and during political elections carries out abstentionistic propaganda. It is a communist party loyal to the teachings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, named "the five teachers of the international proletariat". The party strives for a proletarian revolution and the establishment of a "united, red and socialist Italy".
The PMLI believes that Mao Zedong Thought is the highest stage of the workers' movement. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin is held in high regard within the party due to his construction of the first socialist country, the Soviet Union; and to his encouragement of the creation of the other socialist countries of Eastern Europe. Consequently, the PMLI refutes Trotskyism, believing it to be an extremist and anti-communist diversion from Marxism–Leninism. Furthermore, it views the 1936 Soviet Constitution as an example of the existence of socialism in the Soviet Union. As such, the party's official newspaper is called Il Bolscevico (The Bolshevik).
The PMLI is not represented in the Italian Parliament, the European Parliament, nor in any regional or provincial assemblies.
According to its statute, the PMLI has as theoretical basis "Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought which presides its ideological, political, organizational and practical work".