Fear of revolutionary terror and personal ties to elites demobilized the Action Party

Evidence

The Action Party not only could not have—given its character— a similar power of attraction, but was itself attracted and influenced: on the one hand, as a result of the atmosphere of intimidation (panic fear of a terror like that of 1793, reinforced by the events in France of 1848-49) which made it hesitate to include in its programme certain popular demands (for instance, agrarian reform); and, on the other, because certain of its leading personalities (Garibaldi) had, even if only desultorily (they wavered), a relationship of personal subordination to the Moderate leaders. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 435

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• The Action Party failed because it had no organic government programme for the peasantry. (similarity 0.83)
• Agitational parties without government programmes serve their rivals. (similarity 0.79)
• Communists feared accepting reformist leadership would liquidate revolutionary perspective. (similarity 0.78)