Agitational parties without government programmes serve their rivals.
Evidence
But the Action Party lacked even a concrete programme of government. In essence it was always, more than anything else, an agitational and propagandist body in the service of the Moderates. The disagreements and internal conflicts of the Action Party, and the tremendous hatred which Mazzini aroused among the more valiant men of action (Garibaldi, Felice Orsini, 53 etc.) against himself personally and against his activities, were caused by the lack of any firm political leadership. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 438
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- The Action Party failed because it had no organic government programme for the peasantry. (similarity 0.86)
- Industrialists wield influence by funding whichever party suits their balance of forces (similarity 0.79)
- Fear of revolutionary terror and personal ties to elites demobilized the Action Party (similarity 0.79)
- A revolutionary class needs a peasant base and agrarian program to win (similarity 0.79)
- Objective historical conditions only become politically effective through organized cadres and capable leadership. (similarity 0.78)
- Transforming concrete political questions into abstract principles guarantees political failure. (similarity 0.78)