The French Communist Party saw colonial revolts as key to global proletarian revolution

Evidence

Between 1920 and 1935, the newly formed French Communist Party IPCF) accepted Lenin’s argument that colonial wars of liberation were vital to the collapse of capitalism and the triumph of the proletarian revolution throughout the world. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 562

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: French New Left students remained Leninists oriented toward Third World revolution — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 90; French New Left students embraced Third World revolutionaries over the pro-Soviet PCF — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 90