Gramsci broke from Bordiga’s immobilism while keeping his own critique of Comintern

Evidence

This was the moment at which he seems finally to have decided to initiate the creation of a new centre majority without Bordiga, and to work to heal the rift with the Comintern. Although he was by no means won over to the Comintern’s views on the united front policy, he was not prepared to follow Bordiga on his path of creating an international opposition, and was increasingly hostile to the immobility of his policies within Italy. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 152

Categorization

• XREF: Bordiga’s refusal of united-front politics and Gramsci’s differentiation from it foreshadows the autonomy debate later central to postcolonial critique — connects to the reader’s toolkit on how movements negotiate international doctrine versus local strategy.

Related

• Gramsci opposed Comintern policy in 1923 as firmly as Bordiga did. (similarity 0.86)
• Gramsci’s early differences with Bordiga concerned theory-practice relations and party strategy. (similarity 0.84)
• Gramsci’s shared anti-centrism with Bordiga delayed his open dissent (similarity 0.84)
• Gramsci’s political divergence from Bordiga centered on the theory-practice relation. (similarity 0.84)
• Gramsci’s leadership combined anti-sectarian party norms with mass responsiveness (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci backed Bordiga partly from fear of a rightward replacement (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci never separated hegemony and consent from force and domination (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s strategy rejected a post-fascist democratic phase as impossible and unstable (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s non-abstentionist communist platform was rejected by Bordiga’s faction (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci judged the PCI’s failure to win socialist workers a reactionary triumph (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s 1926 theses rejected any stable post-fascist democratic phase (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s Centre repudiated Italy’s pre-Livorno socialist tradition as provincial (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci read Americanism as a symptom of a major historical shift in production relations. (similarity 0.79)
• Giolitti replaced Crispi’s Jacobin fervor with bureaucratic continuity in policy (similarity 0.79)
• Factional allegiance to the Comintern line determined Italian party leadership calculations (similarity 0.78)