Communist revolution was understood to require winning a majority of workers first.

Evidence

The slogan “To the masses” which was launched at the Third World Congress in 1921 was a recognition that in most cases (there were exceptions like Bulgaria) the communist parties were not yet followed by the majority of workers, and that only when they were would revolution be attainable. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 116

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: This is the united-front tactic as a precursor to Gramsci’s later theorization of hegemony — the need to win the majority before revolution, which the reader’s Islamophobia toolkit will connect to how consent is secured.

Related

• Communists in the early twenties still saw revolution as imminent (similarity 0.78)