Renato Mieli, in Togliatti 1937 , captures well the synthesis between Machiavellism and transformism, which in the post-war period from 1945 onwards was mainly introduced in Italy by the PCI. "The Italian Communist leaders [who were in Russia during the Stalinist purges] possessed a particular quality that made them less vulnerable than others: political ductility. By instinct, perhaps more than by calculation of prudence, they knew how to adapt themselves promptly and with discretion to Stalinist politics, of which they shared the official line, ignoring what was contradictory and conflicting in practice. They dosed their consent so as not to provoke Stalin's diffidence, but to avoid, at the same time, making himself co-responsible for his policy in the most brutal aspects." Such a a similar system experimented in Russia - the subtle art of adapting to the situation, being a lion and a fox of Machiavellian memory, avoiding the risks that a little less malleable p...
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