ABSTRACT
"The Communist camp," wrote Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1966, "is neither homogeneous, monolithic nor unchanging." Revolutionary slogans calling for working-class solidarity, anti-imperialist wars of national liberation, and other forms of political change are frequent components of East European rhetoric concerning the non-Communist world. When inflation mushroomed in 1974-1976, European Communist states began to live on credit, borrowing at a furious rate. Eastern Europe poses much less of a threat to Third World governments, as those Communist regimes lack colonial pasts or records of imperialistic conquest. Communist parties of Western Europe, together referred to as "Eurocommunism" because of both their nonruling status and ideological distinctions from Soviet-inspired doctrine, have had difficult relations with their comrades in Eastern Europe. The Italian, French, and Spanish Communists, usually in concert with the Yugoslav and Romanian parties, have stressed on many occasions their belief in separate roads to Communism dictated by national conditions.
