page_title: Internationalism (politics)
section_title: The Communist International
hierarchical_section_title: Internationalism (politics) / Socialism / The Communist International
caption_attribution_description: English: Boris Kustodiyev. Festival of the II Congress of Comintern on the Uritsky Square (former Palace square) in Petrograd Русский: «Праздник в честь 2-го конгресса Коминтерна на площади Урицкого» (1921, Русский музей)
context_page_description: Internationalism is a political principle that advocates greater political or economic cooperation among nations and people. It is associated with other political movements and ideologies, but can also reflect a doctrine, belief system, or movement in itself.
  Supporters of internationalism are known as internationalists, and generally believe that humans should unite across national, political, cultural, racial, or class boundaries to advance their common interests, or that governments should cooperate because their mutual long-term interests are of greater importance than their short-term disputes.
  Internationalism has several interpretations and meanings, but is usually characterized by opposition to nationalism and isolationism; support for international institutions, such as the United Nations; and a cosmopolitan outlook that promotes and respects other cultures and customs.
  The term is similar to, but distinct from, globalism and cosmopolitanism.
context_section_description: The Communist International, also known as the Comintern or the Third International, was formed in 1919 in the wake of the Russian Revolution, the end of the first World War, and the dissolution of the Second International. It was an association of communist political parties from throughout the world dedicated to proletarian internationalism and the revolutionary overthrow of the world bourgeoisie. The Manifesto of the Communist International, written by Leon Trotsky, describes the political orientation of the international as "against imperialist barbarism, against monarchy, against the privileged estates, against the bourgeois state and bourgeois property, against all kinds and forms of class or national oppression".
caption: Boris Kustodiyev. Festival of the II Congress of Comintern on the Uritsky Square (former Palace square) in Petrograd
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