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in, and its view of the organization of revolution, in the formation of the Third, or Communist, International.

For the function of the Comintern was only in small part to weld together the Marxist-Leninist parties of the world and to project them as arms of Soviet foreign policy. This was a secondary consideration. From its very inception, the Comintern’s major role was to organize catastrophe, working underground as a subversion and espionage apparatus. The “legal” Communist parties were for the most part window-dressing. They were directed and manipulated by the underground international, operating so closely with the Soviet secret police that at times it was impossible to distinguish between the two. As the agony of Latin America develops, this is slowly becoming apparent even to newspaper editors and editorial writers still struggling to hold to the view that the small and ineffective “open” Communist parties south of the Rio Grande are of no consequence.

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in, and its view of the organization of revolution, in the formation of the Third, or Communist, International.

For the function of the Comintern was only in small part to weld together the Marxist-Leninist parties of the world and to project them as arms of Soviet foreign policy. This was a secondary consideration. From its very inception, the Comintern’s major role was to organize catastrophe, working underground as a subversion and espionage apparatus. The “legal” Communist parties were for the most part window-dressing. They were directed and manipulated by the underground international, operating so closely with the Soviet secret police that at times it was impossible to distinguish between the two. As the agony of Latin America develops, this is slowly becoming apparent even to newspaper editors and editorial writers still struggling to hold to the view that the small and ineffective “open” Communist parties south of the Rio Grande are of no consequence.