For the PCI Left, fascist repression merely confirmed the inevitability of revolution

Evidence

Every strengthening of repression was taken as a sign of ruling-class weakness. It must be emphasised that the Left still dominated the party organisation as a whole. In the elections for new federation committees which took place between September and December 1924, Bordiga still controlled the majority of federations, and the most important ones: Turin, Milan, Rome, Naples to name only the largest. But, the leadership too broadly shared the view that had been so succinctly expressed by Bordiga earlier in the year: “the bourgeois counterrevolution for us is the proof of the inevitability of the revolution”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 192

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general scaffolding-theory theme of how a vanguard party’s dogmatic self-assurance blocks accurate assessment of its actual field of forces — a mechanism the Islamophobia readings will echo in other forms.