Gramsci backed Bordiga partly from fear of a rightward replacement

Evidence

It appears that one of the main reasons for Gramsci’s continued support for the Bordiga leadership at this time was his fear that if Bordiga was removed only Tasca and the Right could replace him. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2229

Related

• Gramsci’s political divergence from Bordiga centered on the theory-practice relation. (similarity 0.84)
• Gramsci opposed Comintern policy in 1923 as firmly as Bordiga did. (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci broke from Bordiga’s immobilism while keeping his own critique of Comintern (similarity 0.82)
• Factional allegiance to the Comintern line determined Italian party leadership calculations (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s early differences with Bordiga concerned theory-practice relations and party strategy. (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s shared anti-centrism with Bordiga delayed his open dissent (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci’s leadership combined anti-sectarian party norms with mass responsiveness (similarity 0.79)
• For the PCI Left, fascist repression merely confirmed the inevitability of revolution (similarity 0.78)