Party leadership changes must be read through local history, not external dictates alone

Evidence

Indeed, it cannot be stressed too strongly that it is quite impossible to understand the transition from the Bordiga leadership of 1921-3 to the Gramsci leadership of 1924-6 simply by reference to Comintern influence. It is necessary also to consider the actual history of the party’s political experience in Italy, and the context within which it had to operate. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 130

Categorization

• XREF: Methodologically this aligns with the reader’s scaffolding goal: local context over deterministic external cause, a stance that also appears in how Islamophobia scholars resist seeing it as a purely imported/foreign ideology transplanted unchanged into Western societies.