Gramsci’s leadership combined anti-sectarian party norms with mass responsiveness

Evidence

We have tried to show that Tasca had a more realistic appreciation than either the Left or the Centre of the full significance of fascism, and that Bordiga had a fuller and earlier awareness than either the Centre or the Right of the implications for individual communist parties of events in Russia and in the International generally. We have also tried to show how Gramsci, in the brief period in which he led the P.C.I., successfully combated the maximalism, sectarianism and economism of Bordiga and the pessimism, “liquidationism” and culturalism of Tasca, while seeking to develop a genuinely Leninist political practice —both in terms of intra-party norms and of responsiveness to the spontaneous activity of the masses. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 243

Categorization

• XREF: Provides the historical context for why Gramsci was positioned to write the Prison Notebooks, which the Islamophobia readings will cite as theoretical grounding.

Related

• Gramsci opposed Comintern policy in 1923 as firmly as Bordiga did. (similarity 0.83)
• Party leadership changes must be read through local history, not external dictates alone (similarity 0.83)
• Gramsci broke from Bordiga’s immobilism while keeping his own critique of Comintern (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci’s political divergence from Bordiga centered on the theory-practice relation. (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci’s factory-council focus delayed but ultimately grounded his party work (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci came to see fascism as unifier of the ruling class, not just terror (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci’s shared anti-centrism with Bordiga delayed his open dissent (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s notebooks are too fragmentary for definitive claims about his project. (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s early differences with Bordiga concerned theory-practice relations and party strategy. (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s strategy rejected a post-fascist democratic phase as impossible and unstable (similarity 0.80)
• Understanding party leadership change requires internal history, not just external pressure (similarity 0.80)
• Communists feared accepting reformist leadership would liquidate revolutionary perspective. (similarity 0.80)
• Censorship forced Gramsci’s political commentary into opaque, allusive form in prison (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci read Americanism as a symptom of a major historical shift in production relations. (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci’s 1926 theses rejected any stable post-fascist democratic phase (similarity 0.79)