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Once excluded from the university curriculum by the communists as a bourgeois science, sociology has since 1992 been excluded by anti-communists as a communist science.

THIS ARTICLE DISUSSES THE RAPID DECLINE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN (CPGB), FROM A POSITION OF SOME INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH AND INFLUENCE IN THE 1970'S TO ALMOST TOTAL MARGINALIZATION AND IRRELEVANCE IN THE LATE 1980'S. THE ARTICLE OUTLINES THREE MAIN REASONS FOR THE CPGB'S DECLINE: INDUSTRIAL WAGE MILITANCY AND THE STRUGGLES OF THE EARLY 1970'S, A NEW EUROCOMMUNIST TENDENCY RESPONDING TO INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENTS IN WEST EUROPEAN PARTIES, AND A BODY OF OPINION WISHING TO RESTORE MARXIST-LENINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE TO THE PARTY. THESE THREE TRENDS STILL FORM THE BASIS OF COMMUNIST AND FORMER COMMUNIST ORGANIZATION IN BRITAIN TODAY. IN CONCLUSION, THE THREE TRENDS ARE DESCRIBED AS POST-CPGB STRANDS: INDUSTRIAL WAGE MILITANCY COALESCED AROUND THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRITAIN, THE EUROCOMMUNIST TENDENCY EVOLVED INTO RADICAL DEMOCRATIC AND COMMUNITARIAN POLITICS, AND THE ORTHODOX MARXIST-LENINISTS HAVE FOUND POSITIONS WITH OTHER PARTIES.