ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the revisionist face of Eurocommunism; a distinction must be made between revisionism as a process and Revisionism as an eminent school of thought within the European Marxist movement at the turn of the century. The Eurocommunists' accommodation to electoral politics and parliamentary institutions differed little from that advocated by the father of Revisionism, German Social Democratic leader Eduard Bernstein, at the close of the nineteenth century. Moscow's imposition of the "general laws" throughout the Soviet bloc and parallel campaign against revisionism as the "main danger" within the international Communist movement all but precluded the idea of socialist pluralism. The evolution of the transnational polycentrism into socialist pluralism thus helped to resolve the contradiction between political democracy and historical determinism. The reconciliation of democracy and determinism in theory only threatened further to undermine the legitimacy of Soviet practice.
