Hypocritical | IMGpapers 1976

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This is the meaning of the continuing offensive against the CP on "liberty" pluralism and all the other hypocritical phrases which the capitalists ignore in practice but use to attack the workers parties.

For the leaders of the Italian CP the problem is posed differently. The Communist Party is deeply rooted in Italian societv. If it ever came to a direct cash berween me neces ore wR bourgeoisie and the needs of the Soviet bureaucracy, then a majority of the Party and its leadership would undoubtedly choose the Italian ruling class with only a Stalinist minority opposing this social democratic majority.

At the present time, however, the Party does not have to make such a choice. The main problem for the CP leadership is how to assume office in a way which both guarantees the Italian ruling class against the CP's supporters, without the majority of the working class getting out of control of the Party bureaucracy.

The CP leadership's solution to this problem is the 'historic compromise a coalition between the Communist Party and the Christian Democrats. By a formal alliance with the main capitalist party the CP guarantees to the