[Ted Grant] The Need for the International Stalinism Ted Grant Stalinism 2nd World Congress of the Comintern / Image: Wikimedia commons Share TweetThe Third International was created by Lenin and Trotsky as an instrument of world revolution. However, as Ted Grant wrote in 1943, the Comintern under Stalin quickly degenerated "into a kept whore of the Stalinist bureaucracy, applying its policy according to the changing moods of Kremlin policy. In reality the creation of the International was not a question of sentiment or convenience, but arose directly from the objective tasks posed in front of the international working class."Read the full article in the Ted Grant Archive.
