Factional strength shifts through organizational, not ideological, factors
Evidence
The process of bolshevisation was inexorably eroding the strength of the Left in the party. A number of factors contributed to this process: the Left’s conflict with the Comintern and rejection of the latter’s discipline; its leader’s self-imposed isolation and refusal to accept posts of responsibility in the party; Gramsci’s inner-party activity, especially among the youth; the new intake of militants who had joined the party in the period following Matteotti’s murder; the influence inevitably exerted by the group at the centre which ran the party organisationally. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 200
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Prior organizational practices, not ideology, shaped successor party strategies — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 101; Successful party transformation requires early, sequenced organizational change before programmatic change. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 76; Organizational and political factors, not animosity, create and preserve group dominance (+7 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Prior organizational practices, not ideology, shaped successor party strategies — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 101; Successful party transformation requires early, sequenced organizational change before programmatic change. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 76; Organizational and political factors, not animosity, create and preserve group dominance (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Member participation emerges from ideology and culture, not structure alone
#complicates(0.82) — Adrian Josef Amon, Organizing the study of degeneration…, 83