#comintern

[oceanicmarxist]

[katchwreck]

[leftistfeminista]

WHEN WE celebrate International Women’s Day, we often refer to its origins in US labor struggles early in the last century. Less often mentioned, however, is how it was relaunched and popularized in...

The Communist women stood for the consistent pursuit of militant unity of the workers’ movement. They sought to unite women from all social layers who were prepared to actively oppose the evils of capitalism. They favored an adroit search for common ground with non-Communist currents among women and in the labor movement. In doing so, they played a significant role in shaping the leadership of the Communist International as a whole.

The example of their leadership is perhaps their most important legacy to us. The Communist Women’s Movement prefigured the leading role of women in movements for social progress both today and tomorrow.

[yngwrthr]

Congress of Toilers of the Far East, organized by the Communist International, January-February 1922. (Zinoviev is reading at the Presidium.)

[j-august]

Midway between the wars, Comintern was visibly cross with the CPGB [Communist Party of Great Britain]. Communist leaders, it complained, showed inadequate enthusiasm for denouncing the heresies of the non-Stalinist left. A prominent Comintern bureaucrat protested in 1929: "How does it happen that all the fundamental problems of the Communist International fail to stir our fraternal British party? ... All these problems have the appearance of being forcibly injected into the activities of the British Communist Party... In the British Party there is a sort of special system which may be characterised thus: the party is a society of great friends."

Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm

[conformi]

Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA, 1956–1959 VS Lidia Komarova, Comintern building, Moscow, Russia, 1929 (Diploma project)

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Rare pin from the era of Weimar Germany: German section of the Communist Youth International (German KJI - Kommunistische Jugendinternationale), 1931.

Via Semen Borzenko

[workersandstudentsdemocracy]

Stalin's philosophy on International Communism differed from Trotsky's, but it was imperative to build socialism in one country to improve the material needs for international socialism.