The Comintern’s 1924 left turn stemmed from Soviet inner-party battles, not European events.

Evidence

The strategies defined at the first four World Congresses can be interpreted as responses to the actual course of historical events—at least in Europe. The “left” turn which followed the German October of 1923, on the other hand, and which was reflected at the Fifth World Congress, can only be understood in terms of the inner-party struggle which had already broken out in the Soviet Union, and in terms of Zinoviev’s manoeuvring to shift the blame for the German disaster. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 173

Categorization

• XREF: Shows how factional struggle inside a vanguard reshapes doctrine — parallels mechanisms of how organizational politics can drive ideological positions the reader will want when theorizing how hegemony/orthodoxy get made and unmade.