Gramsci resisted reducing political disagreements to factional labels

Evidence

Gramsci always resisted the tendency current by that time in the Comintern to reduce substantive disagreements to simple factional disputes. In this period, the Comintern was generally following the lead given by Zinoviev at the Fifth Enlarged Executive meeting already referred to, in assimilating left and right oppositions as “right opportunist”. Gramsci never accepted this type of crude amalgam, and continued to speak of right and left tendencies as two separate entities. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 199

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general Gramsci toolkit concern: how theory refuses reductive categorization in favor of substantive analysis — a stance the Islamophobia field’s own debates about crude amalgamation echo.