How Stalin destroyed communism
70 years ago, on 22 May 1943, Stalin announced the formal shutting-down of the Communist International, the association of revolutionary socialist parties across the world set up after the Russian Revolution. Although Moscow retained close control of the Communist Parties until the 1960s, the shutting-down was a symbolic disavowal of socialist revolution. This is how socialists commented at the time. He long ago destroyed it as an instrument of socialism! By Albert Gates (Al Glotzer) The announcement by the Executive Committee of the Communist International that it was proposing its...