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Italian Communist Party

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Italian Communist Party

Partito Comunista Italiano
AbbreviationPCd'I (Italian)
Founded21 January 1921
Dissolved3 February 1991
Newspaperl'Unità
Youth wingCommunist Youth Federation
Political orientationMarxism-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.

History[edit | edit source]

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]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. 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