Eurocommunism

Eurocommunism: A Critical Reading of Santiago Carrillo and Eurocommunist Revisionism critically examines the theoretical foundations behind Santiago Carrillo's development of Eurocommunism and explores how the Eurocommunist parties ended, and how certain supposed anti-Eurocommunist parties in the West have come to accept some of Eurocommunism's central tenets. In this text, Dr. Thomas Riggins richly juxtaposes Eurocommunist revisionism to traditional Marxism/Marxism-Leninism, and embeds this theoretical discussion within the historical and political context of the influence of Eurocommunism within the international communist movement, both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

About the Author:

Thomas Riggins is a retired philosophy teacher (NYU, The New School of Social Research, among others) who received a PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center (1983). He has been active in the civil rights and peace movements since the 1960s when he was chairman of the Young People's Socialist League at Florida State University and also worked for CORE in voter registration in north Florida (Leon County). He has written for many online publications such as People's World and Political Affairs where he was an associate editor. He also served on the board of the Bertrand Russell Society and was president of the Corliss Lamont chapter in New York City of the American Humanist Association. He is currently the Chief Editorial Counselor of the Midwestern Marx Institute for Marxist Theory and Political Analysis. His recent book is Reading the Classical Texts of Marxism (Midwestern Marx Publishing Press).