The International Communist movement

Plan of study of the international communist movement

The First International

  1. Sources of information
  2. Necessary conditions for the rise of the International
  3. The program of the International
  4. The conferences and Congresses
  5. Marx vs. Bakunin

The First International, part 2

  1. The Franco-Prussian war and the International
    1. Causes of the war
    2. The attitude of Marx and Lenin on war compared
  2. The Paris Commune
    1. Democratic revolution grows into a socialist one
    2. Problems of the first “dictatorship of the proletariat”
  3. An epilogue: “Republic of the Dukes”
  4. The lessons of the First International

The Second International

Division of the subject

History of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD)

  1. Sources of information on the history of SPD
  2. Tentative division of the history of SPD
  3. Struggle between the Lassaleans and the Eisenachs
  4. Revisionism in SPD
  5. Disappearance of the middle class in XXI century
  6. Reformism in SPD

The Second International, part 2

The Second International as organization

  1. Sources of information
  2. The crux of the matter

The Second International, part 3

The First Imperialist World War

  1. Sources of information
  2. Objectives of the war
  3. Conclusions from the war

The Second International, part 4

The German revolution

  1. Sources of information
  2. The SPD and the war
  3. A military defeat and a rebellion
  4. The SPD-USPD coalition
  5. Forming a communist party: Luxembourg vs. Lenin
  6. The January 1919 uprising
  7. Reasons for the defeat of January

The Second International, part 5

Soviet Hungary: a “revolution” without a revolution

  1. Sources of information
  2. The three basic problems of Hungary before WWI
  3. The overthrow of feudalism
  4. The Hungarian communists join the Hungarian social-democrats
  5. No changes in the sphere of production and in state apparatus
  6. Bonapartist character of the white terror
  7. Conclusion

The Second International, part 6

Bavarian Soviet Republic

  1. Sources of information
  2. Bavaria before the war
  3. The fall of the monarchy
  4. The first Soviet republic
  5. The second Soviet republic
  6. Reasons for the defeat of the Bavarian Soviet Republic
  7. A resume of events in Bavaria

The Third International

Previous writing on the issue

Julius Braunthal, “History of the International, 1914-1943”, vol. 2, 1963

  1. The end of the Second International
  2. The birth of the Third International
  3. Defeat of revolution in Europe in 1923
  4. Reaction in the Comintern
  5. Why Hitler came to power
  6. The end of the two Internationals
  7. On the social nature of the former USSR

The Third International, part 2

Fernando Claudin, “The Communist movement”, 1970

  • Who is F. Claudin?
  • Chapter 1: the dissolution (of Comintern)
  • Chapter 2: the crisis of theory
  • Chapter 3: monolithicity
  • Chapter 4: the crisis of policy (the Spanish revolution)
  • Chapter 5: revolution and spheres of influence: France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece
  • Chapter 7: the Yugoslav breach (the Warsaw Pact as successor of Comintern)
  • Chapter 8: the East takes over (the Chinese revolution)
  • Chapter 9: the new world balance (the Cold war)
  • Epilogue

The Third International, part 3

Duncan Hallas, “The Comintern”, 1985

  • A Cliffite perspective
  • Positive contributions of Duncan Hallas

The Third International, part 4

Notes on Louis Proyect’s, “History of the Marxist Internationals”, part 3: the Comintern, 2010

  • The German Communist Party in the early 1920’s

The Third International, part 5

Pre-History of Lenin’s Party

  • The robbers
  • The hermits
  • The cossacks
  • The cossack-peasant uprisings
  • Theoretical searching, end of XVIII- beginning of XIX centuries.
  • The Decembrists
  • Aristocratic revolutionaries after the Decembrists
  • The anarchists
  • Narodniki

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