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Repressive Measures. Marchais did pay some of the traditional tributes to Soviet Communism, lauding its social accomplishments and democratic structures, even pledging to fight "anti-Sovietism." But he also underscored French Communism's new autonomy by attacking "repressive measures" taken by the Soviet Union against dissidents (see following story) in extraordinarily blunt language. Said he: "We cannot agree to the Communist ideal being stained by unjust and unjustifiable acts...
...working class with the salaried middle class. In a blatant appeal to Roman Catholic voters, he decried loose morals and praised François Cardinal Marty, the Archbishop of Paris, for his recent outspoken criticism of the lucrative French armaments trade. Marchais also scorned collectivism as a "barracks Communism that casts everyone and everything in the same mold." The French party, he insisted, does not want "uniformity that stifles, but diversity that enriches...
...specter is haunting Europe, as Marx once put it, the specter of Communism. But what kind? Many Communist parties in Western Europe are displaying a new face and style. Dealing with them is a major problem, especially for the Socialists. Italy's Communists have surged to unprecedented influence while openly approving such palatable ideas as a mixed economy, a multiparty system and a free press. France's party seems to be following suit, even repudiating the sacred doctrine of the dictatorship of the proletariat; and Spain's emerging Communists, lean and muscular from the underground, show signs...
...Volume IX confirms that there were rumors of a kidnap plan in 1943. Katz, who last November was found guilty of defamation in the Massacre in Rome case, has postulated that Pius overlooked SS atrocities because he saw the Germans as a barrier against the greater enemy of Communism. Last week Katz said that Volume IX demonstrates that Pius "did all he could"-but calls that policy "a dismal failure...
...Revel's view, Communism does not evolve; it only makes strategic adjustments. "Stalinism is the essence of Communism," he writes. "What changes is not the Stalinist system but the rigor with which it is applied." Since a regime cannot shoot or imprison every one year after year, a relaxation of repression or an increase in consumer goods may work better for a time. But "Khrushchev and Brezhnev are no less Stalinist than Stalin . . . They are merely less bloodthirsty...