A small Italian ruling group absorbed all political personnel from subversive mass movements

Evidence

Democratic centralism is “organic” because on the one hand it takes account of movement, which is the organic mode in which historical reality reveals itself, and does not solidify mechanically into bureaucracy; and because at the same time it takes account of that which is relatively stable and permanent, or which at least moves in an easily predictable direction, etc. This element of stability within the State is embodied in the organic development of the leading group’s central nucleus, just as happens on a more limited scale within parties. The prevalence of bureaucratic centralism in the State indicates that the leading group is saturated, that it is turning into a narrow clique which tends to perpetuate its selfish privileges by controlling or even by stifling the birth of oppositional forces—even if these forces are homogeneous with the fundamental dominant interests (e.g. in the ultra-protectionist systems struggling against economic liberalism). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 777 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Transformism organically absorbed revolutionary personnel into the Italian ruling class; Bureaucratic centralism signals a ruling group hardening into a narrow clique — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 777

Related

• Bureaucratic centralism signals a ruling group hardening into a narrow clique (similarity 0.87)
• Organic and democratic centralism are organisational forms hiding real political relations (similarity 0.85)
• Democratic centralism means adapting constantly to movement rather than hardening into bureaucracy (similarity 0.84)
• Ruling classes absorb and neutralize subversive movements through transformism (similarity 0.83)
• Transformism absorbed opposition elites into the ruling bloc (similarity 0.83)
• Transformism organically absorbed revolutionary personnel into the Italian ruling class (similarity 0.83)
• Defeated populism is absorbed hierarchically into the ruling order (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Transformism organically absorbed revolutionary personnel into the Italian ruling class #corroborates (0.90)
• Bureaucratic centralism signals a ruling group hardening into a narrow clique #qualifies (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 777