Gramsci’s shared anti-centrism with Bordiga delayed his open dissent

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However, Bordiga’s supremacy among the communists in the P.S.I, was total. He had been the most intransigent of the left leaders, and by a long way the first to organise on a national level. His implacable anti-centrism was shared by all the Left, especially the youth organisation, who were so impatient to have done with the P.S.I, that they could not be restrained from setting up an autonomous communist youth section on their own in August 1920. It was precisely because Gramsci’s anti-centrism was as implacable as Bordiga’s own that he took so long to face up to the consequences of his dissent from other aspects of Bordiga’s leadership. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 103