Revolutionary consciousness among masses outran organized revolutionary capacity nationwide.

Evidence

The Ordine Nuovo might have implanted an idea that had caught the imagination of the masses; the intransigents and Bordiga’s abstentionist fraction might have defined an attitude which rejected all compromises; but not even these forces — and how much less the mass organisations, the Party and the trade unions — had made any serious attempt to organise the proletariat, on a national scale, for a revolutionary assault on the capitalist State. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 105

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates Gramsci’s early distinction between revolutionary idea/consciousness and organized revolutionary capacity.