Failed revolutions invalidate tactical estimates but not underlying historical analysis

Evidence

All our estimates and slogans of 1905 were based on the assumption of a victorious revolution, and not of a defeat. We achieved then neither a republic nor a transfer of land, nor even an eight-hour day. Does it mean that we erred in putting these demands forward? The defeat of the revolution blanketed all prospects not merely those which I had been expounding. The question was not of the dates of revolution but of the analysis of its inner forces and of foreseeing its progress as a whole. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2303

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the distinction between conjunctural and organic analyses that Gramsci develops elsewhere in the Prison Notebooks.