Could There Ever Have Been A Sucessful Trotskyist/Eurocommunist State?

Basically Is Stallinism always the inevitable outcome of a Communist state? Some Trots claim, had Marxists come to power In a rich nation such as nearly happened in Germany post WW1, then you could really see communism in action not the bastardised versions ie Stallinism that came to the fore in the USSR and PRC.
Obviously, Trots and Stallinists hate each other to the last as In Spanish civil war. Whereas the Eurocommunists as in Italy have a bit of an affection for the democratic process!
 
Look how it ended up! Mind you Tito was some sort of a genius to keep it together, a Croat from a Slovenian mother who often gave preferential treatment to Serbs! BTW the Yougoslav secret service carried out assainations of Yougoslav disidents elsewhere in Europe including West Germany! So maybe it was more Stallinistic in its outlook in reality!
 
Look how it ended up! Mind you Tito was some sort of a genius to keep it together, a Croat from a Slovenian mother who often gave preferential treatment to Serbs! BTW the Yougoslav secret service carried out assainations of Yougoslav disidents elsewhere in Europe including West Germany! So maybe it was more Stallinistic in its outlook in reality!

Yeah. It played a game very handicaped. But I heard Tito was no rigid stalinist for economy, and he made interesting reforms.

China is kinda 'state capitalism' now, make that what you will...
 
I think, if George Marchais and the French Communists had embraced the May 1968 protests rather than repudiating them, the party could have turned the demonstrators into a movement and, coupling that with its own turn toward Eurocommunism, remained the main party of the left during the 1970s. Then the party wouldn't have swung back towards Soviet Communism and would stand a good chance of winning the Presidency in either 1974 or 1981.
 
I think, if George Marchais and the French Communists had embraced the May 1968 protests rather than repudiating them, the party could have turned the demonstrators into a movement and, coupling that with its own turn toward Eurocommunism, remained the main party of the left during the 1970s. Then the party wouldn't have swung back towards Soviet Communism and would stand a good chance of winning the Presidency in either 1974 or 1981.

You're right, except that Marchais was the leading figure (if not the leader) of the most Stalinist faction. And the demonstrators were very anti-Soviet (curiously, the Trotskytes often became Socialists, while Maoists are now mostly ultra-Conservatives). I'd say you need Casanova in charge of the PC after 1958 to have a successful Eurocommunist PCF, which also implies a full decline of the Socialists.
 
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