Marxist-Leninist holy writ explains almost everything. Last week, one of its serious omissions was trumpeted to the world by Marxist-Leninist Tito of Yugoslavia. The omission: what happens when Communist revolutions succeed in two countries independently. What is the relation between the two countries?
Speaking in Ljubljana, Tito took a new tack in his fight against the Cominform by appealing to leftists and liberals everywhere. In effect, he put his finger publicly on the unmentioned bogey of all Communist organizers: the rooted revulsion of the average man against abandoning his national patriotism and espousing so-called international classism.
Said Tito: "Progressive forces in...