1) The PCF were what are now called Tankies: they were a complex network of traditional worker's movements, with a heavy state centred fixation, and an affinity for Moscow's political line. This is a common place sectarian joke that they were not true communists.
2) The PCF were a powerful agent bound up with the day to day operation of French capitalism, not an organisation designed to overthrow the French State or capitalism in France. This is the specific critique of the PCF: they were neither capable of overthrowing the French State for a Moscow style society, or or implementing communism, as they were designed to be a leashed opposition inside France and incapable of revolutionary action.
3) The PCF were positioned by their bureaucracy, their fixation on the existing French State, and by their factory centred "led" and "controlled" workplaces to work against the PCF seizing power, and to halt, dismantle or stymie attempts at communism. The PCF were positioned to do this whether they liked it or not: it was implicit in how their organisation worked.
4) The PCF, as a party nominally supporting a Moscow style society (though as noted above: actually incapable of achieving that) would (and did) deliberately stymie attempts to achieve a society based around workers control leading to the dismantling of the wage relation. The PCF were a Communist party and therefore opposed communism. (This is separate from point 1: the PCF's actual conduct was to prevent the extensification of solidarity, or the fusion of cross work-site networks, and to break down participation in deep or radical demands.)
The PCF benefited from the existing French society and sought to maintain it.
The PCF were ordered to do so by Moscow.
The PCF wished (formally) to implement a Moscow style society, this is not communism.
The PCF lacked the actual wish, or the capacity, to implement a Moscow style society: they were not only anti-communist but anti-Communist.
The PCF opposed communism during 1968 by opposing greater solidarity, radical demands, or "roping in" workplaces into the struggle.
So to get a Communist or communist France out of 1968 you need a better, different, or defeated PCF.
For an example of a Communist Party which (in part) wanted communism in 1968 see the Czech republic. Had the PCF been responsible, they would have demanded tanks from Moscow.
yours,
Sam R.
2) The PCF were a powerful agent bound up with the day to day operation of French capitalism, not an organisation designed to overthrow the French State or capitalism in France. This is the specific critique of the PCF: they were neither capable of overthrowing the French State for a Moscow style society, or or implementing communism, as they were designed to be a leashed opposition inside France and incapable of revolutionary action.
3) The PCF were positioned by their bureaucracy, their fixation on the existing French State, and by their factory centred "led" and "controlled" workplaces to work against the PCF seizing power, and to halt, dismantle or stymie attempts at communism. The PCF were positioned to do this whether they liked it or not: it was implicit in how their organisation worked.
4) The PCF, as a party nominally supporting a Moscow style society (though as noted above: actually incapable of achieving that) would (and did) deliberately stymie attempts to achieve a society based around workers control leading to the dismantling of the wage relation. The PCF were a Communist party and therefore opposed communism. (This is separate from point 1: the PCF's actual conduct was to prevent the extensification of solidarity, or the fusion of cross work-site networks, and to break down participation in deep or radical demands.)
The PCF benefited from the existing French society and sought to maintain it.
The PCF were ordered to do so by Moscow.
The PCF wished (formally) to implement a Moscow style society, this is not communism.
The PCF lacked the actual wish, or the capacity, to implement a Moscow style society: they were not only anti-communist but anti-Communist.
The PCF opposed communism during 1968 by opposing greater solidarity, radical demands, or "roping in" workplaces into the struggle.
So to get a Communist or communist France out of 1968 you need a better, different, or defeated PCF.
For an example of a Communist Party which (in part) wanted communism in 1968 see the Czech republic. Had the PCF been responsible, they would have demanded tanks from Moscow.
yours,
Sam R.