Tradition
First International
Overview
(First International) socialist political international (1864–1876)
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But these endeavors did not as yet have a sufficient material foundation. The activity of the First International coincided with that period of wars which opened the way for capitalistic development in Europe and North America. In spite of its doctrinal and educational importance, the attempts of the International to mingle in world politics must all the more clearly have shown the advanced workingmen of all…
Leon Trotsky, The Bolsheviki and World Peace
Names First International several times.
The United States and the latest French republic are striking examples, and good old Switzerland has contributed its share to illustrate this point. That a democratic republic is not necessary for this fraternal bond between stock exchange and government is proved by England and last, not least, Germany, where it is doubtful whether Bismarck or Bleichroeder was more favored by the introduction of universal…
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
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Bakunin was expelled from the International as the result of a report accusing him inter alia of theft backed; up by intimidation. The orthodoxy of the International was saved, but at the cost of its vitality. From this time onward, it ceased to be itself a power, but both sections continued to work in their various groups, and the Socialist groups in particular grew rapidly. Ultimately a new International was…
Bertrand Russell, Proposed Roads to Freedom
Close in meaning to First International; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed First International
Related ideas
- Revolutions of 1848
- Anarchism
- Karl Marx
- Trade union
- Mutualism (economic theory)
- Left-wing politics
- Marxism
- French Third Republic
- Socialism
- Positivism
- The Communist Manifesto
- Owenism
- Robert Owen
- August Bebel
- Wilhelm Liebknecht
- January Uprising
- The Times
- Working class
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Second International
- Class struggle
- Proletariat
- Political economy
- Collectivist anarchism
Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.