Comments on: Krestintern: The Comintern’s Troubled Peasant International https://johnriddell.com/2021/10/10/krestintern-the-cominterns-troubled-peasant-international/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Wed, 20 Oct 2021 22:13:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 By: John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/2021/10/10/krestintern-the-cominterns-troubled-peasant-international/#comment-18323 Wed, 13 Oct 2021 19:37:56 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=7421#comment-18323 In reply to Marty Boyers.

Marty, you raise an interesting question. It would be good to check out E.H. Carr’s book, “Twilight of the Comintern,” on this issue. Canada has a rich tradition of farmer radicalism, but it does not seem to me to have fed into the Communist movement. In France, the Communist Party’s farmer base seems to have held through the thirties and beyond. John

]]> By: Marty Boyers https://johnriddell.com/2021/10/10/krestintern-the-cominterns-troubled-peasant-international/#comment-18322 Tue, 12 Oct 2021 02:48:37 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=7421#comment-18322 I wonder if the de-emphasis, and abandonment, of the Peasant International was also a result of Stalin’s forced collectivization of individual peasant holdings. Although officially a war on the kulaks, the wealthy capitalist peasants, it quickly became a political and military war against the huge majority of the independent peasants — the majority of the producers of the USSR. By the end of 1929, individual holdings had been eliminated. It is difficult to appeal to peasant and farmer organizations abroad while waging such a war. As an aside, it also had aspects of a national war against Ukraine, in many ways the heartland of Soviet agriculture.

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