Die Linke's Oskar Lafontaine to head International Commission: ramifications?

[Die Neue Zeit]

http://nachrichten.rp-online.de/politik/lafontaine-wird-botschafter-der-linken-1.80994

To translate the link above, Die Linke's Oskar Lafontaine, just two months after retirement, will head a new commission formed by Die Linke: the International Commission.

While this commission is tasked with developing proposals, decisions, and positions on the party's international relations, could it be that this may be the third vector towards a new International after initial efforts by Chavez and the pareconists?

[chegitz guevara]

Does the world need another social democratic international?

[Die Neue Zeit]

No it doesn't. But it does need a revival of at least some of the ideological diversity within the original Socialist International (Second International). Better yet, it needs the more constrained ideological diversity like that which existed within the short-lived International Working Union of Socialist Parties.

Having anti-militarists at the most right-wing, especially those openly declaring a desire to "overthrow capitalism" (if only rhetorically) and hostile to the group I'm about to mention, is better for broad unity projects than having right-syndicalists (who are nationalists to the point of supporting war a la Ebert, who prefer lower economic struggles than political struggles a la British tred-iunionizm, etc.). Oskar Lafontaine's politics may be like those of Hugo Haase, but then again one must distinguish between a revolutionary period (when Haase became a renegade) and a non-revolutionary period (when Haase was Bebel's political heir).