Purely international programmatics breed passivity and waiting for others to move

Evidence

That non-national concepts (i.e. ones that cannot be referred to each individual country) are erroneous can be seen ab absurdo : they have led to passivity and inertia in two quite distinct phases: 1. in the first phase, nobody believed that they ought to make a start—that is to say, they believed that by making a start they would find themselves isolated; they waited for everybody to move together, and nobody in the meantime moved or organised the movement; 2. the second phase is perhaps worse, because what is being awaited is an anachronistic and anti-natural form of “Napoleonism” (since not all historical phases repeat themselves in the same form). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 908