Gramsci opposed Comintern policy in 1923 as firmly as Bordiga did.

Evidence

Although, as we have already pointed out, it is still not possible to trace fully the itinerary of Gramsci’s political development in these years, the documents quoted are unambiguous evidence of the basic elements of his position in the summer of 1923. They show the fatuity of the view that Gramsci was simply the “Comintern’s man”, parachuted into the leadership in place of the refractory Bordiga. If anybody was the Comintern’s man at this time it was Tasca, and Gramsci did not differ from Bordiga in his condemnation of Comintern policy. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 148

Categorization

• XREF: Corrects the standard ‘Comintern’s man’ reading of Gramsci’s leadership accession, relevant to any account of how the PCI formed its ideology against Moscow’s line.