ABSTRACT
A phrase of Henri Weber best summarizes the evolution of the communist movement in its international dimension in the decades that followed the Second World War: “The international communist movement is gaining in extent but losing in homogeneity”. 1 Communism was spreading in the periphery of the capitalist world system, linked with national liberation movements, at the same time that the Soviet-Leninist paradigm was more and more losing its appeal. The international centre, Moscow, was the sickly Pope of a global church that was generating ever more centrifugal tendencies, doctrines, and congregations.
