Anti-democratic legislators were within one shift of becoming a majority

Evidence

The Comintern had for the first time nominated a new party leadership against the wishes of a majority of its own nominees. Bordiga, Fortichiari, Grieco and Repossi of the original P.C.I. executive all favoured an intransigent policy of non-collaboration in any such imposed executive; Togliatti, Terracini and Scoccimarro were equally unhappy about the imposed solution, but were persuaded by Gramsci that the dangers of accepting were less than those of allowing a right-wing leadership. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 142 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Legislative change follows shifts in public opinion by decades, so opinion must come first — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1646; Lawmakers’ anti-freedom and anti-equality stances form one coherent dimension — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3635; Institutional authority can override a party’s own internal majority preference — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 142 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Institutional authority can override a party’s own internal majority preference #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 142