Comintern structure inverted authority by balancing on the Russian summit

Evidence

It is necessary to base ourselves on the whole International, on the whole world proletarian vanguard. Our organisation is like a pyramid and must be so, because everything must flow from the individual sectors towards a common summit. But this pyramid is balanced on its summit, and is too unstable. It must be turned the other way up … Given that the world revolution has not yet developed in other countries, it is necessary for Russian policy to be worked out in the closest relation to the general revolutionary policy of the proletariat . — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 214

Categorization

• XREF: The inverted-pyramid critique of a center hoarding interpretive authority resonates with later postcolonial critiques of metropolitan theory vs. periphery experience - could connect forward into Islamophobia readings about who owns definitional authority.