Gramsci’s Centre repudiated Italy’s pre-Livorno socialist tradition as provincial
Evidence
Gramsci and the Centre, on the other hand, violently attack the Left’s “fractionism”, and argued that bolshevisation should be seen as the construction of a real world communist party and that opposition to it was the result of provincial residues. The Centre’s Congress Theses, published in October and drafted by Gramsci with the collaboration of Togliatti, give the most complete resume of the leadership’s analysis and strategy in this last period of semi-legal existence. The theses repudiated the entire socialist tradition in Italy prior to Livorno, and stressed the qualitative novelty introduced by the October Revolution and Leninism. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 208
Categorization
- XREF: The repudiation of pre-Leninist socialism as ‘provincial residues’ foreshadows the Comintern’s universalizing Leninism — connects to how a metropolitan theoretical center declares provincial the traditions it subsumes, relevant to later postcolonial theory readings.
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