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There is an anecdote making the rounds in Prague these days. According to the story, a Czechoslovak government minister recently quoted the opening words of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto: "A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of communism." Then he added: "But today it is the other way around. A specter is haunting communism - the specter of Europe!"

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Some analysts view Eurocommunism as a "new look" or sudden shift in the tactics of West European communist parties, designed primarily to reinforce domestic positions; others see it as the product of profound changes in several European communist parties, but principally as a historic reversal in the basic flow of influence, from an East-West to a West-East direction.

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The Prague Spring of 1968 was a product not only of the process of destalinization in Czechoslovakia but also of various reformist trends in European communism (both East and West).

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Simply put, the Prague Spring can be considered the forerunner of Eurocommunism, and the Czechoslovak reformers can be considered its forefathers in their attempt to create a model of socialism that, rooted in the Western tradition, differs from that of the USSR.

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus

Jiri Valenta

Jiri Valenta

Born: April 9, 1945 (age 80)
Bio: Jiri Valenta is coordinator of Soviet and East European studies and associate professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.


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