Tactics must remain flexible while preserving an unchanging revolutionary identity.

Evidence

“The Comintern must base its tactics upon the possibility of both perspectives. The manoeuvres of the Comintern must be so arranged as to be able rapidly to adapt oneself to the changing rate of development, and in any case even with a prolonged rate of development of events, to remain the irreconcilable mass Communist Party of proletarian revolution which attracts the masses and trains them for the revolutionary struggle.” — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2185

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Gramsci’s later distinction between war of manoeuvre and war of position. — connects to: Revolutionary leaders need both fanaticism to win and flexibility to survive governing — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 384; Flexibility demands adaption to a world that lacks continuity itself. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 169

Broader Connections

• Revolutionary leaders need both fanaticism to win and flexibility to survive governing #expands (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 384
• Flexibility demands adaption to a world that lacks continuity itself. #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 169