Accepting a comintern-imposed leadership requires an internal polemicist fraction

Evidence

The position was now one of the most extreme complexity. The Comintern had for the first time nominated a new party leadership against the wishes of a majority of its own nominees. … Togliatti finally wrote to the others that he was prepared to accept the post given him by the Comintern Executive only on condition that the old leading group should constitute itself as a fraction and begin “an open polemic with the International and with the minority in the party, by means of a series of declarations of principle and polemics which must be not only communicated to the International but disseminated among the masses”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 142

Categorization

• XREF: Togliatti’s demand that polemic be ‘disseminated among the masses’ prefigures Gramsci’s later account of how intellectuals build hegemony through diffusion — and connects to how oppositional groups preserve independent identity within a dominant bloc. — connects to: Counter-hegemonic elites require an internal hierarchy to develop; Extolling spontaneity as a method masks a bid to replace existing leadership — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 805
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Counter-hegemonic elites require an internal hierarchy to develop; Extolling spontaneity as a method masks a bid to replace existing leadership — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 805