A failed attempt to build an international network for ‘socialism from below’ in the 1950s

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Publication date 10-2025
Journal Critique : journal of socialist theory
Volume | Issue number 53 | 4
Pages (from-to) 599-606
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract In the early 1950s, an international network of revolutionary political groups emerged that sought to achieve ‘socialism from below’. The organisations Socialisme ou Barbarie (France), Spartacus (Netherlands) and Correspondence (USA) formed the core of this network, but the initiative also received support elsewhere. Partly under the influence of Khrushchev's secret speech at the 20th Congress of the CPSU and the Hungarian uprising, they attempted to develop joint activities in 1956, but these were not successful.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2025.2587589
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