Italian Socialists rejected parliamentarism while using elections to cultivate class consciousness

Evidence

More dramatically, the Socialist Party also rejected any form of parliamentarism. It fought fi ghts in electoral terms and with a cleareyed revolutionary set of objectives. Th is most intense dissemination of communist principles was meant to “facilitate the abolition of the institutions of bourgeois domination” (Tasca 1965, 95). Elections were thus understood as a barometer to measure the shift of power toward labor and as a powerful means of cultivating class consciousness. While the proletarian parties were growing in strength, so too were workers’ unions— with the two organizations being structurally interconnected in both countries. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 348

Categorization

• XREF: Contrast with British Labour’s constitutional-road stance — key analytic distinction for this study. — connects to: Italian Socialists treated elections as instruments, not ends, toward revolution — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 348; Radical council workers rejected state socialism as a new form of capitalist domination — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 466

Broader Connections

• Italian Socialists treated elections as instruments, not ends, toward revolution #expands (0.97) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 348
• Radical council workers rejected state socialism as a new form of capitalist domination #responds-to (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 466