The Hamburg Congress

SOCIALISM

At Hamburg, Socialist delegates, representing 30 nations and more than 50,000,000 workers, constituted themselves the Socialist Workers' Internationale. Thus the existence of the Second Internationale and the Vienna Internationale (often alluded to as the Second and One-Half) came to an end.

The Second Internationale came into being in 1899; that of Vienna 1921. Their separate existence was terminated by special meetings of their executives. [The Third Internationale is purely Communist and has its headquarters at Moscow, capital of Soviet Russia.]

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