A leading party can force the situation forward by creating irreversible faits accomplis

Evidence

On the subject of Jacobinism and the Action Party, an element to be highlighted is the following: that the Jacobins won their function of “leading” [dirigente ] party by a struggle to the death; they literally “imposed” themselves on the French bourgeoisie, leading it into a far more advanced position than the originally strongest bourgeois nuclei would have spontaneously wished to take up, and even far more advanced than that which the historical premisses should have permitted—hence the various forms of backlash and the function of Napoleon I. … This feature, characteristic of Jacobinism (but before that, also of Cromwell and the “Roundheads”) and hence of the entire French Revolution, which consists in (apparently) forcing the situation, in creating irreversible faits accomplis , and in a group of extremely energetic and determined men driving the bourgeois forward with kicks in the backside, may be schematized in the following way. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 473

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Jacobin method and the dirigente/leading party: imposing themselves on their own class base via irreversible accomplished facts.
• XREF: The Jacobins driving an unwilling bourgeoisie forward offers a model of vanguard action the reader can carry into Islamophobia readings on how hegemonic blocs are actively constructed, not merely inherited. — connects to: Successful party reform requires new leaders able to centralize decisively and rapidly. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 93