Internal party struggles over bolshevisation eroded the Left’s strength through multiple converging forces

Evidence

But the situation was not one which allowed such calm, non-factional discussion. The process of bolshevisation was inexorably eroding the strength of the Left in the party. A number of factors contributed to this process: the Left’s conflict with the Comintern and rejection of the latter’s discipline; its leader’s self-imposed isolation and refusal to accept posts of responsibility in the party; Gramsci’s inner-party activity, especially among the youth; the new intake of militants who had joined the party in the period following Matteotti’s murder; the influence inevitably exerted by the group at the centre which ran the party organisationally. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 200

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The left’s defeat may have been a slow disintegration rather than a battle — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 276

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