Gramsci’s theses rejected democratic transition and any broad reformed united front

Evidence

The theses went on to formulate the concept of an alliance between the northern proletariat and the southern peasantry, and to define the anti-fascist opposition forces as so many links in a chain of reaction stretching from fascism to the P.S.I. The idea that any post-fascist democratic phase was possible was rejected; any transitional phase would be brief and unstable, and lead quickly to the outbreak of civil war. Lastly, the united front was given the most narrow possible definition, as merely a means for unmasking the reformists. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 209

Categorization

• XREF: This hard-line rejection of a united front as merely unmasking reformists reads as the pre-prison maximalism Gramsci later refines into the war-of-position analysis.