Mazzinism offered no self-criticism from within its own ranks

Evidence

The only ” orthodox” attempt—i.e. from within—was Pisacane’s essays; but these never became the platform for a new organic policy, notwithstanding the fact that Mazzini himself recognised that Pisacane had a “strategic conception” of the Italian national revolution. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 565

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Said never subjected modernity itself to critique; Contemporary literary radicalism never examines its own class determination and self-censorship — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 41; Anti-antisemitic thinkers conspicuously avoided invoking any predecessors — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 1200 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Said never subjected modernity itself to critique; Contemporary literary radicalism never examines its own class determination and self-censorship — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 41; Anti-antisemitic thinkers conspicuously avoided invoking any predecessors — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 1200 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

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