Purity-first party strategy produced near-total political immobilism

Evidence

On the other hand, he was equally opposed to mass movements, such as the Turin factory councils, which were not strictly controlled by the party. Ultimately his line resulted in an almost complete immobilism. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 102

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete case of rigid vanguardism — the party-purity strategy that immobilism names — as a causal mechanism carrying into later Gramsci readings on hegemony.
• XREF: connects to: Party control of all mass movements leads to political immobilism; Party dissolution paradoxically produced unity and elite consolidation — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 431; Italian maximalist socialism valued principle-preservation over concrete political strategy — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 79 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Party control of all mass movements leads to political immobilism; Party dissolution paradoxically produced unity and elite consolidation — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 431; Italian maximalist socialism valued principle-preservation over concrete political strategy — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 79 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Party dissolution paradoxically produced unity and elite consolidation #complicates (0.74) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 431