The Comintern’s dual perspective allowed for both slow and imminent revolution

Evidence

The epoch of international revolution has commenced. The rate of its development as a whole or partially, the rate of development of revolutionary events in any particular continent or in any particular country, cannot be foretold with precision. The whole situation is such that two perspectives are open: (a) a possible slow and prolonged development of the proletarian revolution, and (b) on the other hand, that the ground under capitalism has been mined to such an extent and that the contradictions of capitalism as a whole have developed so rapidly, that the solution in one country or another may come in the not distant future. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2184

Categorization

• DEFINE: Primary source text establishing what the two perspectives actually were in the Theses on Tactics.

Related

• Communists in the early twenties still saw revolution as imminent (similarity 0.80)
• Revolutionary theory is judged by analyzing internal forces, not predicting dates. (similarity 0.78)