Both the PCI and Aventine opposition misjudged fascism’s imminent crackdown
Evidence
When the fascists finally struck back in January 1925, and Mussolini’s speech assuming responsibility for the Matteotti murder was followed by a new wave of repression, this was seen by the party as a mere episode. A compromise between fascism and the opposition was still confidently expected. (It should be stressed that the other opposition parties had an equally mistaken assessment of the true situation; the Aventine parties issued a statement at this time which declared “The moral battle has already been won”!). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 191
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Fascist arrests hollowed out the PCI leadership, forcing exile-based recomposition — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 139; The early PCI leadership treated fascism as secondary to the social-democratic threat; The Italian Communist leadership gravely underestimated fascism’s significance for years (+4 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Fascist arrests hollowed out the PCI leadership, forcing exile-based recomposition — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 139; The early PCI leadership treated fascism as secondary to the social-democratic threat; The Italian Communist leadership gravely underestimated fascism’s significance for years (+4 more)