The Historical Contribution Of Engels On The Second International

Engels,as the leader of the Second International,devoted his time to the creation and consolidation of the Second International,the ideological mentor and spiritual leader of the proletarian revolution at that time,and made a great contribution to the international communist movement.For a long time,the academic role of Engels in the second international play less involved,this article hopes to read and analyze the relevant literature,with reference to the basic historical facts and based on the context of Engels in the second international history of the more comprehensive analysis.After the 1980 s,capitalist economy and political development entered a new stage,and the economy gradually entered the period from the transition of free capitalism to monopoly.The political representative system of democratic politics became perfect and the universal suffrage was expanded.And the international workers' movement has passed through the downturn in the Paris Commune and rekindled.In this new situation,in order to bring the workers' movement together,Engels and representatives of socialists in various countries,and France may be fighting for the leadership of the international workers struggle to fight,and ultimately the success and the creation of the second international.In the second period of the historical period of the development of capitalist "peace",from the beginning of creation,it faced the ideological and organizational destruction of non-Marxist schools.Engels in his later years in order to consolidate the status and role of the second international,in the active writing of the works of propaganda Marxist theory at the same time with anarchist and other non-Marxist schools of thought to fight;organizations to assist countries to build mass workers class political parties and actively strengthen the link between the socialists of various countries is to consolidate the unity of the organization of the Second International.And after the death of Engels,the second international because of the lack of absolute spiritual leaders,there has been a great change from thought to organizational division.Ideologically divided into the left and right factions,that is,Luxembourg as the representative of the firm to defend the Marxist left to Kautsky as the representative of the neutral school and to Bernstein as the representative of the "correct" Marxist right;organization is due to the division of thought and the creation of the second international at the beginning of the organization did not set up a variety of reasons leading to the final separation of the communist International and the Socialist International.This also confirms Engels' influence and contribution to the Second International.The study of Engels' contribution to the Second International in his later years was analyzed from both horizontal and vertical perspectives.Horizontal is Engels' contribution to thought and organization in his later years;the vertical is based on the time clue,from the beginning of the second international establishment,the development process,until the final division of the context to analyze Engels in his later years to make the contribution.By systematically combing Engels' contribution to the Second International,we can not only better study the history of Marxism,strengthen Marxist political thought,systematically grasp the role of Engels in the international communist movement,the theoretical practice of contemporary international communism has important value,but also can help us to better understand the historical and practical significance of Marxist theory on the development of China today,and deeply study and carry out the important ideas of core consciousness.