Postwar US power led Togliatti to rule out Western European socialist revolution.

Evidence

The formative years of this overwhelming structure provided the immediate backdrop against which Togliatti was to announce, in effect, in the one industrial country where the Communist Party had emerged from the war as the main national force, that socialist revolution was simply not on the cards in Western Europe. Whether Togliatti was being plainly realistic or packaging a Stalinist sell-out in democratic phrases, subsequent historians have not been able quite to determine. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 104

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The CIA intervened in Western European politics to block Moscow-aligned communists from governing — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 88