Eurocommunism

English

Etymology

Euro- +‎ communism

Noun

Eurocommunism (uncountable)

1. An ideological trend within various Western European communist parties in the 1970s and 1980s; a form of communism less aligned with Soviet communism and allegedly more relevant to Western European social conditions.
   • 1981 December 19, Nancy Wechsler, Christine Delphy, “Politics In France”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 8:

     But isn't the French CP more tied to Moscow?
     Yes. They flirted with Eurocommunism, and then they didn't stay with it for very long. Just recently around Afghanistan they showed that they were still allied with Moscow.

Synonyms

• neocommunism

Translations

trend

• Catalan: eurocomunisme m
• Finnish: eurokommunismi (fi)
• French: eurocommunisme (fr) m
• Galician: eurocomunismo (gl) m
• Italian: eurocomunismo m
• Portuguese: eurocomunismo (pt) m
• Romanian: eurocomunism n
• Spanish: eurocomunismo m