Factional allegiance to the Comintern line determined Italian party leadership calculations
Evidence
Bordiga’s attitude by now was that only a change in the line of the Comintern as a whole would make it possible for the Left to participate once more in the party leadership; he regarded the new Centre as having succumbed to Tasca, and felt that the Right was the logical leadership in view of current Comintern strategy. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 165
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Gramsci backed Bordiga partly from fear of a rightward replacement (similarity 0.83)
- Gramsci broke from Bordiga’s immobilism while keeping his own critique of Comintern (similarity 0.82)
- For the PCI Left, fascist repression merely confirmed the inevitability of revolution (similarity 0.82)
- Gramsci opposed Comintern policy in 1923 as firmly as Bordiga did. (similarity 0.81)
- Communists feared accepting reformist leadership would liquidate revolutionary perspective. (similarity 0.81)
- Internal party struggles over bolshevisation eroded the Left’s strength through multiple converging forces (similarity 0.81)
- The Left faction dominated the PCI apparatus despite refusing leadership posts (similarity 0.81)
- Party leadership changes must be read through local history, not external dictates alone (similarity 0.80)
- Gramsci’s leadership combined anti-sectarian party norms with mass responsiveness (similarity 0.80)
- Gramsci’s non-abstentionist communist platform was rejected by Bordiga’s faction (similarity 0.80)
- Gramsci rejected simple left-right labels for political leadership choices (similarity 0.79)
- The early PCI leadership treated fascism as secondary to the social-democratic threat (similarity 0.79)
- Gramsci rejected faction labels of left and right as falsifying real political strategies (similarity 0.79)
- The Communist Party’s 1930 left turn destroyed its leadership and underground network (similarity 0.79)
- The Centre faction consolidated control by absorbing rivals over several years (similarity 0.79)