Berne International

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The Berne International was a Socialist International formed in Bern, Switzerland 3–9 February 1919.[1] Its goal was to re-establish the Second International. However it did not support world revolution and rejected involvement with the Communist International.

The initiative grew out of the failure of a group of

social democratic parties to hold a conference in Stockholm
in 1917.

bourgeois democracy and greeted the revolution in Soviet Russia, but which also denounced the dictatorship of the proletariat. Whilst this gained much support, a group of delegates led by Friedrich Adler and Jean Longuet
proposed a resolution calling on the conference to avoid taking a definite stand on Soviet Russia, as there was a lack of information about the situation there. To remedy this they proposed that a commission should be sent to Russia to study the economic and political situation there so that the question of Bolshevism could be discussed at the next Congress.

The commission was to be led by Adler, Kautsky, and Rudolf Hilferding. The Soviet regime agreed to admit the commission, but in return requested the admittance of the Soviet commission to those countries whose representatives were on the Bern commission. The Soviet government received no reply to this request and the commission proposed at the conference never visited Russia.[2]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9780810864771
    . Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Glossary of Events: Be". marxists.org. Retrieved 5 May 2018.

Further reading

  • Albert S. Lindemann, The 'Red Years'. European Socialism Versus Bolshevism, 1919-1921. Berkeley, Los Angelis: University of California Press.


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