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INTRODUCTION

proposed that the left can benefit from the current global conjecture by 'return[ing] to class-based internationalism ' and developing a 'socialist cosmopolitanism '. 4 The notion that structural social injustice can only be addressed through a politics that transcends individual countries both orientationally and organisationally has a long and rich history. Indeed, the initiatives introduced above can be seen as the most recent expressions of the same intellectual current that inspired the First, Second, and Third Internationals and, as such, is Yet, Marx and Engels' proletarian internationalism and its practical instantiation in the IWMA built on the legacy of a wide diversity of groups and ideas that emerged during the first decades of the nineteenth century. 6 Due to the influence of an originally Marxist bias against 'utopian' 4 T. Piketty, 'Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right: Rising Inequality in the Changing Structure of Political Conflict,' WID Working Paper Series 7. 5 As Michael Forman has shown, this is true for both of the two main strands of literature that make up conventional historical scholarship on socialist internationalism, namely the extensive body of work on th

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