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and Sweden.) Azecarte says that they do not wish to disturb the balance of forces and would ask for removal of US forces only if the Soviet Union reduced its troops in the USSR. Lucio Lambardo-Radico calls this a double strategy. To make Europe independent of blocs and also to overcome the bipolarity of the "leader States, USA, USSR", a worldwide pluralist structure of power is envisaged.
On ideological questions, the interviewed leaders state that Marxism-Leninism is outmoded. So is the dictatorship of the proletariat, Lenin's concept of democracy and a cadre party—all this is unacceptable to Azecarte. Marxism for us is scientific socialism and not atheistic philosophical materialism.
This seems to be in line with what Carrillo has written and this is the destiny of revisionism—rely on imperialist arms to guarantee the peace of Europe.
And naturally, with this ideology, an international outlook among Eurocommu-nists will be lacking, with each party taking a bourgeois-chauvinist position in opposition to the other on any issue. And bourgeois papers are having great fun at this display of Eurocommunist differences. An editorial of the Times of India dated 19th August writes: "To judge by the bitter polemics between the French and the Spanish Communists over Spain's admission into the European Economic Community, the'so-called Eurocommunist phenomenon may well have become a thing of the past. The leader of the Spanish GP Mr Manual Azecarte has gone on record to state that the French CP's campaign against Spain's membership of the EEC smacks of 'sensationalism* and 'parish-pump patriotism/ He has even claimed that the French comrades have used 'false and demagogic arguments', stooped to irrational depths' and played with the hand of'old reactionary demons'. The French Communists have rightly descril ed his criticism as being 'excessive' but they have been hard put to answering Mr Azecarte's main charge that they have opposed Spain's membership only with a view to enhancing their appeal in the eyes of a section of the French electorate."
It is not clear whether the Times of India editorial exaggerates the controversy. But it is clear that by its nature and class origin, revisionism is antagonistic to internationalism and in its search for collaboration with its own bourgeoisie, certainly adopts extreme bourgeois chauvinist positions. We have seen Bernstein justifying colonial conquests to protect German interests.