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| | The Italian Communist Party: Social Democrats or Trojan Horse? |
 | | The Party's policy toward Fascism changed diametrically twice during Mussolini's dictatorship, and always in response to the Moscow Party line, which in turn was based on what was deemed to be the most ex pedient means of gaining power for the Communists, not on what was necessary to destroy Fascism or restore a free society. |
 | | Under democratic centralism, the lower-level members of the Party debate and discuss the positions to be adopted by the higher echelons, which in turn debate, discuss, and adopt a Party line. |
 | | For a political party, the test should consist of whether it has genuinely democratized its internal structure (i.e., discarded "democratic centralism whether its financing is open to the public and in dependent of foreign sources, and whether its ideology, statements and performance are irrevocably rooted in time-tested concepts of Western political pluralism. |
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