The Comintern’s united front policy sought working-class majority through common action with reformists

Evidence

The response of the Comintern to what were, at that time, seen as temporary ebbings of the revolutionary tide was, fundamentally, the united front policy. This characterised Comintern strategy, despite fluctuations in interpretation, at least until 1925-6. Its basic idea was that the communists, now that they had expelled, or split from, the reformists, should seek to engage the latter in forms of common action; only thus could they win a majority in the working class — which has a fundamental interest in unity, whether in defensive or in offensive action. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 115

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the united front policy as the Comintern’s core strategic answer to revolutionary ebb