Isolationist Communism

What effects would it have on the world if the main type of Communism that developed didn't call for internationalism or a world revolt of the proletariat? Would there still be the Red Scares, or even the Cold War?
 
What effects would it have on the world if the main type of Communism that developed didn't call for internationalism or a world revolt of the proletariat? Would there still be the Red Scares, or even the Cold War?

Well, North Korea and Albania are prime examples... *shivers*
I prefer by far the world-engaged kind of "communism".
 
What effects would it have on the world if the main type of Communism that developed didn't call for internationalism or a world revolt of the proletariat? Would there still be the Red Scares, or even the Cold War?
For the most part, the "main type of Communism" throughout the twentieth century didn't call for internationalism or world revolt. The fight between Stalin and Trotsky in the USSR in the 1920s shook out in favor of Stalin and Bukharin's "socialism in one country" thesis.

The Comintern continued to exist up until 1943, but it's difficult to describe it as a priority for the Soviet government. Even its most active programs, like the Popular Front, were seldom as organized as their opponents suggested. The Cominform, a "successor" to the Comintern, was effectively isolated to eastern bloc nations, and even it fell apart under Khrushchev in the 1950s. Generally speaking, neither the Soviet Union or the Peoples' Republic of China discouraged foreign parties or individuals from trying to promote communism, but they didn't actively encourage it, either. The image of communism expanding like some sort of virus is a byproduct of the Red Scares: with the exception of eastern Europe (which seemed to have more to do with Russian politics and history than communist ideology), the countries that adopted communist governments after WWII did so as a result of their own internal conflicts. For example, Stalin had, by all accounts, expected the nationalists to retain power in China and was as surprised as everyone else when Mao took control in 1949.

That said, "textbook" Marxism was international in its scope, and that was probably the major fuel for the Red Scares / Cold War. The problem is that it's difficult to imagine a form of Marxist communism that could both attract significant popular support and have any real chance at seizing national power anywhere without some level of internationalism. Marxism developed as a counterpoint to capitalism, and capitalism was effectively international in its scope. Maybe a modified form of Christian socialism or even something akin to a more successful Paris Commune might take hold, but both are pretty different from Marxist-style communism as we've come to know it....
 
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