Italian Communism: The Escape from Leninism : an Anthropological PerspectivePluto Press, 1990 - 246 pages Crispen Shore's work is based on research in the heart of the Communist-governed city of Perugia. He traces major factors which explain the success of the PCI - its disengagement from the Soviet Union, its break with the strictures of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, its development of an independent popular national vision of socialism and the expansive sub-cultural role it has created for itself within Italian society. |
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Page 144
... democracy : liberal , pluralist democracy within the Italian parliamentary system , and Leninist democratic centralism for its own internal organisation . According to many critics , however , democratic centralism is incompatible with ...
... democracy : liberal , pluralist democracy within the Italian parliamentary system , and Leninist democratic centralism for its own internal organisation . According to many critics , however , democratic centralism is incompatible with ...
Page 156
... democracy ' and the ' dictatorship of the proletariat ' . He asserted that the most democratic bourgeois republic is no more than a machine for the suppres- sion of the working class by the bourgeoisie , for the suppression of the ...
... democracy ' and the ' dictatorship of the proletariat ' . He asserted that the most democratic bourgeois republic is no more than a machine for the suppres- sion of the working class by the bourgeoisie , for the suppression of the ...
Page 167
... would argue that most socialist parties and trade unions are hardly ' paragons of achieved democracy ' . Such examples , far from strengthening the case for democratic centralism , actually weaken Democratic or Bureaucratic Centralism ?
... would argue that most socialist parties and trade unions are hardly ' paragons of achieved democracy ' . Such examples , far from strengthening the case for democratic centralism , actually weaken Democratic or Bureaucratic Centralism ?
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Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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