Communists in the early twenties still saw revolution as imminent

Evidence

What must, however, be stressed is that this was by no means the view of communists throughout the early twenties, despite all the setbacks and defeats. The notion that the proletarian revolution was no longer on the immediate agenda was the hallmark of the social-democrats, and was fiercely rejected by all currents within the Third International. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 114

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• The Comintern’s dual perspective allowed for both slow and imminent revolution (similarity 0.83)
• Communists feared accepting reformist leadership would liquidate revolutionary perspective. (similarity 0.82)
• Revolution may not even exist as a spectre anymore (similarity 0.79)
• Communist parties after October 1917 organized strategy around revolution’s actuality (similarity 0.79)
• Communist revolution was understood to require winning a majority of workers first. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Volksgemeinschaft outcompeted communism by promising upward mobility and instant realization #complicates (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 844