Gramsci held that revolutionary politics requires active intervention in history, not passive waiting.

Evidence

From the time of his first, ill-starred entry into print on the subject of neutrality in 1914, one of the constants of Gramsci’s position was his view that revolutionary politics must necessarily be an active intervention in history, and could not consist simply in adopting “correct” positions and waiting to be proved right, waiting for the historical process to provide the circumstances in which the ruling class would topple, the true revolutionaries would be acknowledged by the masses and socialism could be ushered in. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 149

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes a core distinguishing feature of Gramsci’s concept of revolutionary politics as active historical intervention.