Gramsci anchored revolution in autonomous class organisations dialectically linked to a vanguard party.

Evidence

Bordiga saw the party as an elite which must above all guard itself against any contamination of its “pure” principles. Tasca, on the other hand, never understood the qualitative difference between the Leninist party and the parties of the Second International. Moreover, both were united in their suspicion of the factory councils in 1919-20. Gramsci’s strategy, in contrast, turned entirely on the creation of autonomous class organisations of the proletariat and peasantry—in continuity with the conceptions of Ordine Nuovo , but now in dialectical relation with a vanguard party which alone could organise the taking of power and fight for revolution within the class organisms. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 244

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes Gramsci’s mass-spontaneity party conception from Bordiga’s pure-elite and Tasca’s Second International versions.
• XREF: The autonomous-class-organisations-plus-vanguard dialectic prefigures Gramsci’s later hegemony/war-of-position theory that Islamophobia readings will invoke.