Autonomous factory committees threatened established trade-union structures from inception.

Evidence

For Tasca criticised the whole attempt to stimulate the formation of autonomous factory committees, outside the established trade-union structure (it was substantially the same disagreement which had arisen in 1919-20), and called for an initiative towards the P.S.I, and an attempt to reach agreement with the reformist C.G.L. leaders for common action to defend the remnants of trade-union independence. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 204

Categorization

• XREF: Pre-echoes debates within Gramsci analyses about whether revolutionary organs should grow inside or outside existing institutions — connects to the hegemony vs. corporatism distinction found later in the notebooks.