Internationalist settler colonialism: Oleksa Drachewych, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Communist International’, in Immanuel Ness, Zak Cope (eds), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Palgrave, 2021, pp. 2417-2428 | settler colonial studies blog

Internationalist settler colonialism: Oleksa Drachewych, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Communist International’, in Immanuel Ness, Zak Cope (eds), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Palgrave, 2021, pp. 2417-2428

25Aug24

Abstract: The Bolsheviks led international communism through the Third International (also known as the Communist International or the Comintern), which operated from 1919 to 1943. A major target for the Comintern was world imperialism. The Comintern proclaimed itself as a partner of all oppressed peoples and supported colonial liberation. As part of its efforts, it gradually grew to appreciate the differences in the colonial world and developed some consideration of settler colonialism and its effects. Communist parties around the world attempted to create platforms in their local contexts which dealt with their understanding of their country’s history and the treatment of Indigenous peoples. Despite realizing that settler colonies had different aims than exploitative colonies, the Comintern tended to still treat the colonial world uniformly.

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