ABSTRACT
One of the great questions that have been posed on the key characteristics of Eurocommunism is: what is its relationship with democracy, meaning in particular liberal democracy as it has developed in the Western world in opposition to the “people’s democracy” that constituted the political model of the Eastern countries. It is a pertinent question, in theory: “how compatible is a communist party which proclaims the dictatorship of the proletariat, with the fundamentals of pluralistic liberal democracy?”, but also in the political conjuncture: “the communists are on the verge of taking power in key countries of the Western world. Can we entrust our democratic institutions to them?”
