John Riddell (on Comintern) Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/authors/john-riddell-on-comintern/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:36:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 https://i0.wp.com/johnriddell.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-John-Riddell-Icon-Final-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 John Riddell (on Comintern) Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/authors/john-riddell-on-comintern/ 32 32 22825446 How Democratic Centralism Was Applied https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/10/how-democratic-centralism-was-applied/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/10/how-democratic-centralism-was-applied/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:41:37 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6329 Part 2 of ‘Party Organization in Lenin’s Comintern’ See Part 1: Shaping a Policy By John Riddell: The Comintern’s 1921 organizational theses, discussed in Part 1 of this study, were next mentioned in a world congress by Lenin himself, in his address to the Fourth World Congress in 1922. At the end of what was […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/10/how-democratic-centralism-was-applied/feed/ 3 6329 Party Organization in Lenin’s Comintern https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/08/party-organization-in-lenins-comintern/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/08/party-organization-in-lenins-comintern/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2020 01:07:57 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6286 Part 1: Defining Democratic Centralism See also Part 2: Applying Democratic Centralism By John Riddell: Many socialist groups today seek to shape their organizational principles in the spirit of “democratic centralism” identified with V.I. Lenin. Yet as historian Lars Lih has demonstrated (“Fortunes of a Formula” and “Further Fortunes of a Formula”), Lenin himself used […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/08/party-organization-in-lenins-comintern/feed/ 5 6286 The Comintern’s Great Turn of 1920-21: Part 1 https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/08/great-turn/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/08/great-turn/#respond Tue, 08 Sep 2020 15:16:19 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=6022 From the Second World Congress to the March Action See also Part 2: The Third World Congress and Its Outcome Table of Contents Part 1: From Second World Congress to ‘March Action’ 1920: Year of Great Hopes Four Historic Conventions The German Party Turns Left The ‘March Action’ Part 2: The Third World Congress and […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/08/great-turn/feed/ 0 6022 The Comintern’s Great Turn of 1920-21: Part 2 https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/08/3wc-outcome/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/08/3wc-outcome/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2020 15:08:39 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=6042 The Third World Congress and Its Outcome See also Part 1: “From Second World Congress to March Action“ Table of Contents Part 1: From Second World Congress to ‘March Action’ 1920: Year of Great Hopes Four Historic Conventions The German Party Turns Left The ‘March Action’ Part 2: The Third World Congress and Its Outcome […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/08/3wc-outcome/feed/ 3 6042 Comintern Project Book List Tops a Dozen https://johnriddell.com/2019/06/24/comintern-project-book-list-hits-a-dozen/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/06/24/comintern-project-book-list-hits-a-dozen/#respond Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:02:43 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=5357 The Communist International Publishing Project 1983-2021 General Editors: John Riddell and Mike Taber With eight volumes of the originally projected series have now been published, with another scheduled for 2020. In addition, three related collaborative projects are completed or in preparation. All published books on the list, below, are available both at libraries and for […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/06/24/comintern-project-book-list-hits-a-dozen/feed/ 0 5357 How did socialists respond to the advent of fascism? https://johnriddell.com/2018/08/11/how-did-socialists-respond-to-the-advent-of-fascism/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/08/11/how-did-socialists-respond-to-the-advent-of-fascism/#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2018 16:31:30 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=5102 The following talk was given on 21 July 2018 to a two-day seminar at York University entitled “Historical perspectives on united fronts against fascism and the far right.” By John Riddell: The framework for our panel this morning is “Unity against the Right: A historical approach.” There are in fact many histories of such united […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2018/08/11/how-did-socialists-respond-to-the-advent-of-fascism/feed/ 5 5102 The League Against Imperialism (1927-37): An early attempt at global anti-colonial unity https://johnriddell.com/2018/07/09/the-league-against-imperialism-1927-37-an-early-attempt-at-global-anti-colonial-unity/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/07/09/the-league-against-imperialism-1927-37-an-early-attempt-at-global-anti-colonial-unity/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:41:54 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=5086 The following talk, given on 20 May 2018, was one of a hundred panels at the Montreal conference “The Great Transition: Preparing a World Beyond Capitalism.” The conference attracted more than 1,500 participants. The talk was given in French; what follows is a translation. It formed part of a panel, “The Dawn of Our Liberation,” […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2018/07/09/the-league-against-imperialism-1927-37-an-early-attempt-at-global-anti-colonial-unity/feed/ 1 5086 35 years of Comintern publishing: A balance sheet https://johnriddell.com/2018/02/26/35-years-of-comintern-publishing-a-balance-sheet/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/02/26/35-years-of-comintern-publishing-a-balance-sheet/#comments Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:13:43 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=5001 The following text is a much expanded and updated version of a talk that I gave in 2013, under the title “Toward the United Front: Translations for the Twenty-First Century.” For a list of my related online articles on the Communist International, see “Lenin’s Comintern Revisited: Index.” –JR By John Riddell: In June 1983, after […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2018/02/26/35-years-of-comintern-publishing-a-balance-sheet/feed/ 6 5001 Fruits and perils of the ‘bloc within’ https://johnriddell.com/2018/01/15/fruits-and-perils-of-the-bloc-within/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/01/15/fruits-and-perils-of-the-bloc-within/#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2018 21:42:40 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4941 Part 3 of ‘The Comintern and Asia 1919-25’ See also Part 1, Toward a global anti-imperialist strategy Part 2,  Should Communists ally with revolutionary nationalists? By John Riddell. The most advanced experience of Communist alliance with national revolutionists occurred in Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) prior to the Baku Congress. However, it was not mentioned at […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2018/01/15/fruits-and-perils-of-the-bloc-within/feed/ 4 4941 Should Communists ally with revolutionary nationalism? https://johnriddell.com/2018/01/07/should-communists-ally-with-revolutionary-nationalism/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/01/07/should-communists-ally-with-revolutionary-nationalism/#comments Sun, 07 Jan 2018 16:46:55 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4932 Part 2 of ‘The Comintern and Asia 1919-25’ See also Part 1, Toward a global anti-imperialist strategy. Part 3, Fruits and perils of the ‘bloc within’ By John Riddell. As described in part 1 of this series, the Comintern leadership concluded at the end of 1919 that “[T]he civil war of the working people against the […]

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