The Bolshevik revolution was greeted by some Marxists as refuting deterministic Marxism

Evidence

That Gramsci’s views at the time were decidedly unorthodox by the standards of the Second International, is shown by his famous article saluting the Soviet revolution, La Rivoluzione contro il ‘Capitale’ , published in Avanti! a week after the meeting with Trozzi and others, which was subsequently widely criticised for apparently counterposing “Leninist” revolutionism to “Marxist” passivity and determinism. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2501

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later Gramsci passages on hegemony vs economism, and to the reader’s scaffolding module on how theory gets built against prevailing orthodoxy.