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Eurocommunism

Meaning of "Eurocommunism" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF EUROCOMMUNISM

ˌjʊərəʊˈkɒmjʊˌnɪzəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EUROCOMMUNISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Eurocommunism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EUROCOMMUNISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Eurocommunism

Eurocommunism was a trend in the 1970s and 1980s within various Western European communist parties to develop a theory and practice of social transformation that was more relevant for a Western European country and less aligned to the influence or control of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Outside of Western Europe, it is sometimes referred to as "Neocommunism." This theory stresses greater independence.

Definition of Eurocommunism in the English dictionary

The definition of Eurocommunism in the dictionary is the policies, doctrines, and practices of Communist Parties in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, esp those rejecting democratic centralism and favouring nonalignment with the Soviet Union and China.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EUROCOMMUNISM

Anglicanism · antagonism · bonism · communism · creationism · exhibitionism · expressionism · feminism · hedonism · Hellenism · humanism · impressionism · isolationism · mechanism · modernism · organism · reductionism · urbanism · vegetarianism · Zionism

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EUROCOMMUNISM

Euro MP · euro-ad · euro-commercial paper · Euro-size · Eurobeach · eurobond · Eurocentric · eurocheque · Eurocheque card · Euroclydon · Eurocommunist · Eurocorps

WORDS THAT END LIKE EUROCOMMUNISM

abolitionism · anticommunism · coping mechanism · determinism · equestrianism · Exchange Rate Mechanism · expansionism · hooliganism · humanitarianism · Leninism · New Urbanism · opportunism · paganism · Platonism · post-modernism · Satanism · shamanism · totalitarianism · trade unionism · veganism

Synonyms and antonyms of Eurocommunism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Eurocommunism» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF EUROCOMMUNISM

Find out the translation of Eurocommunism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of Eurocommunism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Eurocommunism» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

欧洲共产主义
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

eurocomunismo
570 millions of speakers
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English

Eurocommunism
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

Eurocommunism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشيوعية الأوروبية
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Еврокоммунизм
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

eurocomunismo
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

Eurocommunism
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

eurocommunisme
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Eurocommunism
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Der Euro
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

Eurocommunism
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

Eurocommunism
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Eurocommunism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Eurocommunism
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

Eurocommunism
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Eurocommunism
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Avrupa komünizmi
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

eurocomunismo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

eurokomunizm
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Єврокомунізм
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

eurocomunismului
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ευρωκομμουνισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Eurocommunism
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

eurokommunismen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

euro
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Eurocommunism

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EUROCOMMUNISM»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of Eurocommunism
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Eurocommunism».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Eurocommunism

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EUROCOMMUNISM»

Discover the use of Eurocommunism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Eurocommunism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Eurocommunism & Eurosocialism: The Left Confronts Modernity
The Left Confronts Modernity Bernard Edward Brown. which they openly declare will have to be led by the "only" revolutionary party, the only party that expresses the interests of the working class— the Communist party. Their goal, then, could ...
Bernard Edward Brown, 1979
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Workers and Communists in France: From Popular Front to ...
STRATEGIES. AND. COUNTER-STRATEGIES. UNDER. GAULLISM: RELATIVE. AUTONOMY. AND. THE. BEGINNINGS. OF. FRENCH. EUROCOMMUNISM. The crisis of the last months of the Algerian War had brought the Gaullist regime a ...
George Ross, 1982
3
The Politics of Eurocommunism: socialism in transition
Written in 1980, provides an interesting historical account of the Eurocommunist movement, its origins, strategies, and relationship to both the Soviet Union and the United States.
Carl Boggs, David Plotke, 1980
4
Karl Kautsky: Marxism, Revolution, and Democracy
... in 1964, who, like all Communists, still uses the term Kautskyism as one of opprobrium and condemnation to criticize what he does not like about Eurocommunism. Schematically, we can say that the great majority of the European proletariat, ...
John Hans Kautsky, Karl Kautsky, 1924
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From Stalinism to Eurocommunism: the bitter fruits of ...
En række kritiske essays fra den marxistiske venstrefløj, der analyserer eurokommunismens historiske rødder, dens rolle i det kriseplagede Vesteuropa, dens sammenhæng med stalinismens opløsning og dens virkninger på Sovjetunionen og ...
Ernest Mandel, 1978
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The American Way of Peace: An Interpretation
to the West European cultural unease and mirroring détente, there arose in the late 1960s a curious but not altogether surprising phenomenon that by the mid- 1970s had entered the political vocabulary under the name Eurocommunism.
Jan S. Prybyla, 2005
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The Charmed Circle of Ideology: A Critique of Laclau and ...
Indeed, despite the inflated claims to have discovered a new paradigm, postmarxism actually inherits the programme and strategy of Eurocommunism and represents a contemporary continuation of the dominant, rightward-moving tendency ...
Geoff Boucher, 2009
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West European Communism and American Foreign Policy
faces of Eurocommunism: for those who were unable to study the phenomenon at first hand, it was easy to be deceived (indeed, even some of the participants were fooled, at least for a while). Taking some selected elements of the ...
Michael Arthur Ledeen, 1987
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Which Socialism? Whose Détente?: West European Communism and ...
These conditions were met in the mid-1970s, and they explain the PCF's temporary shift to Eurocommunism. The PCI also intended Eurocommunism as a network of international alliances to safeguard its domestic strategy, the Compromesso ...
Maud Bracke, 2007
10
The Communist Party in Spain
Here we are using the same argument Carrillo used when he said that Eurocommunism was not suitable for the Third World. Apparently it is not suitable for the Russians either since for example the PCE has never been critical of the fact that ...
Víctor Alba, 1983

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EUROCOMMUNISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Eurocommunism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Greece in chaos: will Syriza's last desperate gamble pay off?
It was born out of Eurocommunism – when the communist parties of the west declared loyalty to parliamentary democracy instead of Moscow. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
2
The experience of Podemos in the Spanish State, its originality, its …
... at the University of Complutence in Madrid, personalities coming from Eurocommunism, the Black movement, Chavism, facilitators of the CIM ... «International Viewpoint, Jun 15»
3
“The EU is a first step”: an interview with Federico Campagna
JM: In the 1970s and 80s the project of Eurocommunism attempted to build a Europe around a very different set of principles than those ... «Open Democracy, Jun 15»
4
Love and Lead – how paparazzi dealt truth and fiction in terror …
Externally, the Soviet Union was less than keen on the soft model of Eurocommunism. Equally the USA could not countenance a communist ... «British Journal of Photography, May 15»
5
Syriza and socialist strategy
The crucial reference point for his strategy is Nikos Poulantzas, who articulated a left wing version of what was called Eurocommunism in the ... «Socialist Worker, Mar 15»
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Syriza backs down to euro bankers
Eurocommunism, which turned its back on the socialist camp and the Soviet Union, abandoned the class struggle altogether as a form of ... «Workers World, Feb 15»
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A Chance for Italy to Distinguish Itself
... long led the way for the rest of the Continent, from the Renaissance to fascism to Eurocommunism, that ferment within the Communist Party in ... «Wall Street Journal, Feb 15»
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Greece: SYRIZA, the first Green government in Europe?
Or, in English Coalition of Left, of Movements, and Ecology. Its roots were in Eurocommunism – the Gramscian corner of communism which was ... «Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Jan 15»
9
Greece decides a Grexit from the Euro
The former is a late offspring of Eurocommunism, which has been long dead in the rest of Europe, and the latter has emerged in the aftermath ... «Pravda, Jan 15»
10
Elegant attack on a complex communist
From the 1960s he became a powerful advocate of Eurocommunism and increasingly critical of the Soviet Union and the world communist movement. On the ... «Morning Star Online, Jan 15»
REFERENCE
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