Establishment of Communist International

Date: March 2, 1919 • Location: Moscow, Russia

Communist, revolutionary-socialist, and syndicalist delegates met in Moscow to establish the Communist International.

Communism is a political and economic ideology whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic classless order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need. A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state.