Soviets reply to Carillo Critique slams ‘Eurocommunism’ Communists in socialist and Western Europe have responded to € theoretical revisions and anti- art eee of Spanish Com- hist Party leader Santiago Carillo, : a _ Statements published last week M the Soviet Union, German Democratic Republic, and the Federal Republic of Germany Condemned Carillo’s book Urocommunism and the State, Published in April, as ‘‘anti-Soviet”’ and “revisionist.” € critique of Carillo’s views are carried in an article entitled,» Contrary to the Interests of Peace. and Socialism in Europe, in the: Soviet weekly journal New Times, _ Gune, 1977 No. 26). New Times has 4 wide circulation in almost every _ Country in the world. The article Was then reproduced in the GDR Newspaper Neues Deutschland. In West Germany the communist lly Unser Zeit added its com- Ment last week, calling Carillo’s Statements “helpful for the propa- gandists of the crisis ridden capitalist system.” The paper took the occasion to disassociate West German communists from Carillo’s position. While the views of the Spanish leader have been the subject of discussion in the international communist movement for some years, Eurocommunism and the State is seen as a substantial shift in Carillo’s thinking which on a number of key issues completely breaks with Marxist principles. The book was met with silence at first, from the Soviet Union, in deference to the Communist Party of Spain’s struggle to win legality and last month’s historic election —the first free election in Spain in over 40 years. It received wide coverage in the west, however, especially those sections that denounced the Soviet Union as a “superpower” which “cannot be considered a workers’ democracy.”’ “The question naturally arises,” Underground territories. _ about Soviet people: