ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the evolution of the Italian Communist Party's (PCI) national and international strategies in the 1980s. It examines the evolution of Eurocommunism and the reasons which gave rise to the new culture of the Euroleft. In point of fact, the PCI believed that the crisis of European Social Democracy would be solved by way of acquiring a less modest political image and thus shifting its policies to the left, alongside the terza via of Eurocommunism. In point of fact, the PCI believed that the crisis of European Social Democracy would be solved by way of acquiring a less modest political image and thus shifting its policies to the left, alongside the terza via of Eurocommunism. Nevertheless, leading economists and politicians of the PCI clearly emphasised the novelties brought about by the new phase of development and did not hesitate to openly attack the defects of the existing Italian welfarism.
