Bordiga asserted national sections could question Russian Communist Party policy

Evidence

When the delegation met before the Congress to discuss the draft theses presented by Zinoviev, Bordiga declared that Russia was faced with two possible perspectives: advance towards socialism, or failure to continue this advance. He stated that the International had the duty to analyse these possibilities, and that the individual national sections could and should intervene. This meant of course direct defiance of the Russian Central Committee’s request, and the Italian delegates—after Bordiga had left the meeting—decided to ask the Russian party for information on the Russian situation. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 213

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: National parties defiance of Moscow aimed to investigate Soviet conditions
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: National parties defiance of Moscow aimed to investigate Soviet conditions