USAID: Following in the Footsteps of Comintern

When World War I broke out in the summer of 1914, non-communist left-wing parties operating at that time in the countries of the Entente and Triple Alliance behaved more patriotically rather than supranational-cosmopolitan. Many of them supported their countries' governments and rejected Lenin's call to soldiers in the trenches... "to turn weapons against the class of oppressors" and "transform the imperialist war into civil war".

As reported by Baku.ws, this is discussed in a new release of the analytical YouTube channel Caliber.

"The Bolsheviks strongly advised the world proletariat to wish defeat upon their countries in a war alien to the working class, as defeat, in their opinion, would lead to the formation of a 'revolutionary situation' in countries and create favorable conditions for world revolution and, consequently, 'liberation from chains'."

"This ideological divergence between pro-national social democrats and forces standing for proletarian internationalism led to an irreversible split in the ranks of the international proletarian movement and accelerated the creation of... the Communist International (or Comintern for short). And later - to the dissolution of the already dysfunctional Second International," the video material states.

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