The Third International subordinated member parties to Soviet interests

Evidence

The Second International had also come increasingly to represent or signify that revolution would come through the instruments and structures of bourgeois society: political reform through the institutions of bourgeois democracy. When the International collapsed, so did its tactical and ideological resolutions. What appeared to replace them was the Third International dominated by Lenin and the policies of his Bolshevik cadre. Tactically, a renewed commitment to violent struggle became evident in the movement. Moreover, with the formation of the Third International, it became necessary for member national parties to pledge their loyalties to the Comintern, the Soviet Union and, in practical terms, to the Bolshevik Party. The defense of the Soviet Union was to be the highest priority. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 983

Categorization

• XREF: The Comintern’s subordination of national parties to Soviet defense prefigures the later conflict between Black radical autonomy and Soviet-line party discipline that Robinson traces. — connects to: MRAP delegations served Soviet-bloc foreign policy interests