ABSTRACT
why have the Communists not yet come to power in Italy? Will they do so and, if they do, when (in the indeterminate future, after the next elections in 1973, next autumn, or next month, and how (violently, surreptitiously, or legally) ? Is there any organization or institution left in the country powerful and respected enough to cope with them? What can still be tried, which has not been tried before, to ward off their final triumph, or possibly to attenuate its disagreeable consequences ? These questions have once again become as pressing as they were twenty-odd years ago, just after the war and before the 1948 elections when the Party suffered a great if temporary setback.
