Left factions failed to unite because their strategies were mutually contradictory

Evidence

Throughout the early months of 1922, there was a continual dialogue des sourds between the P.C.I., hostile to any alliance with the other left organisations but pressing for a general strike and direct action against fascism; the reformist-led C.G.L., whose aim was to detach itself from the maximalist-dominated P.S.I, and form a Labour Party which could participate in a government coalition; and the P.S.I., which was locked in a sterile combination of verbal intransigence with total passivity in practice. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 132

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘dialogue des sourds’ among left factions prefigures the reader’s concern with fragmented opposition movements and their structural inability to forge counter-hegemony—parallels rivaling progressive factions in contemporary movements. — connects to: The left’s defeat may have been a slow disintegration rather than a battle — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 276; The purported postcrisis consensus was ideologically incoherent and self-contradictory — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 537; Leftist pragmatic compromise is structurally outmatched by coordinated neoliberal strategy. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 915 (+1 more)