Page "Eurocommunism" Paragraph 13

From a Trotskyist point of view, Ernest Mandel in From Stalinism to Eurocommunism: The Bitter Fruits of ' Socialism in One Country views Eurocommunism as a subsequent development of the decision taken by the Soviet Union in 1924 to abandon the goal of world revolution and concentrate on social and economic development of the Soviet Union, the doctrine of " socialism in one country ".

Thus the Eurocommunists of the Italian and French communist parties are considered to be nationalist movements, who together with the Soviet Union abandoned internationalism.

This is analogous to the social democratic parties of the Second International during the First World War, when they supported their national governments in prosecution of the war.