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The position adopted by the Greek Communist Party (KKE) since the 1930's--that conditions in Greece were not ripe for a socialist revolution--contributed in large measure to the considerable military & pol'al defeats of the Greek Left. Because of theoretical inadequacies & a submission to the needs of Soviet pol'al leaders, the KKE has espoused a consistently non-revolutionary line. It has repeatedly called for a "bourgeois-democratic revolution" against "feudal remnants" & a "popular front against fascism." After successfully leading the resistance against German occupation in WWII, the KKE bargained away its military strength & surrendered its arms in order to participate in a gov of "nat'l unity" in pursuit of a "people's democracy" & "nat'l democratic change." Its strategies of "class colloboration" & the "peaceful road to socialism" through the growth of bur'tic state capitalism were soundly defeated during the civil war. By the 1950's, most of its remaining supporters were either refugees or prisoners. In the 1960's, the KKE allied with soc democratic elements in the legal United Democratic Left (EDA) party. Since the 1967 coup, an even broader alliance encompassing groups from the KKE on the left to monarchists & militarists on the right has formed to oppose the junta. But given the internat'l DofL in the world capitalist ecnomy, a proletarian socialist revolution in an underdeveloped country like Greece is a reasonable goal. A. Karmen.