To a great extent, the Marxian designation of religion as the “opium of the people” has lost currency among the Eurocommunists. When Eurocommunists do make rare mention of religion, they describe it as a humanist commitment to a better world, one which the Eurocommunists see as currently unrealizable. Marxism-Leninism as a worldview has also lost currency. It is true that the West European Communists are still devoted to Marx, Engels, Lenin—as well as the “classical” Gramsci and Togliatti; but this ideology is no longer seen by them as a uniform, dogmatic view of man, nature and history. Rather, it is conceived as an instrument for analysis of political and social relations, as a “methodology for historic initiatives.”