Bordiga rejected winning working-class majorities for a pure vanguard party

Evidence

The real gulf between him and the International was not on the comparatively unimportant issue (given the revolutionary perspectives of the period) of abstentionism, but on the far more essential question of whether it was necessary to win the majority of the working class. Bordiga’s position was then, and always remained, an utterly rigid one; the party should be pure and hard, and if it followed the correct policies then the mass of the working class would of course follo w its lead. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 101

Categorization

• XREF: The Bordiga line vs. winning-the-majority dispute echoes the elitism-versus-mass-base debates in representing any political identity — a structural parallel to Islamophobia field debates over whether counter-discourse speaks to converts or the already persuaded. — connects to: Bordiga’s followers treated party discipline as inapplicable to predestined leaders — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 161; Some Bordiga followers believed certain leaders stood above party discipline
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Bordiga’s followers treated party discipline as inapplicable to predestined leaders — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 161; Some Bordiga followers believed certain leaders stood above party discipline