ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I shall try to present the main features of Eurocommunism, which has recently become the dominant trend in the communist parties of developed industrialized countries. The basic tenets forming the body of Marxist doctrine have been subjected to critical review in the preceding chapters of this book.105 The rise of Eurocommunism confirms the validity of the thesis put forward in these chapters, which is that, one after another, these basic tenets are being abandoned by European communists disenchanted with the performance of communist parties in power in various countries.
