Comintern's "periods"
  • First Period. After WWI, upsurge and defeat
  • Second Period.  Capitalist consolidation.
  • Third Period. Imminent workers' revolutions for Communism.
  • Spain and classical "Stalinism"
Third Period Implications
  • Socialists="social fascists"
  • "red unions"
  • Trotskyists=counterrevolutionary
Classical "Stalinism"
  • "revolution" but by "stages"
  • current stage calls for a "popular front" with a "progressive bourgeoisie"
  • Soviet Union as "workers' democracy," "people's democracy," etc.

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