COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL
Comintern was upset by the American Socialist Party because the party had rejected the 21 Conditions for Affiliation and withdrew their intent to join the Third International. To Comintern, the Socialist Party was a party of “bourgeois socialism.”
Unmindful of the steady economic prosperity during the 1920s in America, Comintern “assured” American Communists that the economic growth was about to make an abrupt U-turn.
The Russian communists were very ambivalent about the League (see {600375}).
Comintern was generally supportive of Black enfranchisement; but they were unrealistic, for they viewed Blacks as an oppressed “nation” within the United States. Blacks, however, weren’t looking for a distinct nationhood, but just to be fully accepted into the already existing nation.
The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International (1919–1943), was an international organization that advocated world communism. It was controlled by the Soviet Union. The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress to "struggle by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the state". The Comintern was preceded by the 1916 dissolution of the Second International.
