Comintern

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Comintern (Communist International or Third International), an international organization (1919-1943), created in accordance with a large section of the revolutionary working class movement during the first stage of the general crisis of capitalism; a historical successor of the First International and the heir of a faction of the Second International, which was decomposed after the beginning of World War I as a result of opportunistic regeneration and treason to proletarian internationalism from the side of the overwhelming majority of social-democratic parties entered into its composition.

The crash of the Second International impelled Bolsheviks to raise a question about the creation of a Third International purified of opportunism. Lenin raised the idea of a Third International in the 1914 resolution The Tasks Of Revolutionary Social-Democracy in the European War, which served as the basis of the RSDLP manifesto War and Russian Social-Democracy. Being the decisive authoritative force in the international working movement, that was left by those true to proletarian internationalism, Bolsheviks under V. I. Lenin's management led the fight for the rallying of left groups in the social-democratic parties. One of the prerequisites of the creation of the new International was the development of the ideological and political principles of it, as well as its theoretical communist basis (analysis of the imperialistic character of World War I ad the need for its transformation into civil wars against the bourgeoisie; a study of the revolutionary situation; conclusions about the possibility and inevitability of the victory of the Socialist Revolution initially in a small number of capitalist countries and so on).

This page is part of the Field Guide to the Left.