Advanced capitalism’s superstructures slow revolutionary action and demand long-term strategy

Evidence

I think that the situation is quite different. Firstly, because the political conception of the Russian communists was formed on an international and not on a national terrain; secondly, because in central and western Europe the development of capitalism has determined not only the formation of broad proletarian strata, but also and as a consequence has created the higher stratum, the labour aristocracy with its appendages of trade-union bureaucracy and the social-democratic groups. The determination, which in Russia was direct and drove the masses into the streets for a revolutionary uprising, in central and western Europe is complicated by all these political superstructures, created by the greater development of capitalism; this makes the action of the masses slower and more prudent, and therefore requires of the revolutionary party a strategy and tactics altogether more complex and long-term than those which were necessary for the Bolsheviks in the period between March and November 1917. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 167

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 167
• XREF: connects to: Mistrust of hierarchy and organization fuels capitalist realism’s freeze on systemic change — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1580; Late neoliberal capitalism resembles the Soviet system’s terminal phase but worse — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1957