A party structured as embryonic state cannot tolerate internal factions claiming equal rights

Evidence

The party, which is an embyronic State structure, can allow no division of its political powers. It cannot permit a part of its members to claim rights equal to its own, to pose as allies of the “whole”—just as a State cannot allow a part of its subjects to make (via a foreign power) a special contract, over and above the general laws, governing their relations with it, i.e. with the very State to which they belong. To admit such a situation would imply the subordination de facto and de jure of the State and of the party to the so-called majority of the represented: in reality, to a group which poses itself as anti-State and anti-party and which ends up by indirectly exercising power. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 869

Categorization

• DEFINE: The organic-centralism principle: the party as ‘embryonic State structure’ is defined partly by prohibiting internal right-claims that parallel a state prohibiting special contracts with subjects.