Meanings
- uncountableAn ideological trend within various Western European communist parties in the 1970s and 1980s; a form of communism less aligned with Soviet communism and allegedly more relevant to Western European social conditions.
But isn't the French CP more tied to Moscow? Yes. They flirted with Eurocommunism, and then they didn't stay with it for very long. Just recently around Afghanistan they showed that they were still allied with Moscow.
1981 December 19, Nancy Wechsler, Christine Delphy, “Politics In France”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 8Synonyms: neocommunism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn ideological trend within various Western European communist parties in the 1970s and 1980s; a form of communism less aligned with Soviet communism and allegedly more relevant to Western European social conditions.
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Translations
Catalan eurocomunisme
- eurocomunismetrend
Finnish eurokommunismi
- eurokommunismitrend
French eurocommunisme
- eurocommunismetrend
Italian eurocomunismo
- eurocomunismotrend
Portuguese eurocomunismo
- eurocomunismotrend
Romanian eurocomunism
- eurocomunismtrend
Spanish eurocomunismo
- eurocomunismotrend
Turkish avrokomünizm
- avrokomünizmtrend
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Eurocommunism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eurocommunism
“Eurocommunism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eurocommunism. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Eurocommunism,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eurocommunism.
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