The Italian Communist Party clashed with the Comintern long before the united front policy
Evidence
The roots of the schism between the new P.C.I. and the Comintern go back, of course, well before the united front policy was proclaimed in December 1921. Lenin had sharply condemned Bordiga’s abstentionism in 1920. In the summer of 1921, the International had been highly critical of the P.C.I.’s attitude to the arditi delpopolo (see note 25 on p. 230 below). At the Third World Congress in June, the Italian party had aligned itself with the new leadership of the German party in support of the “theory of the offensive” (formulated notably by Bela Kun); that theory was the object of harsh criticism from Trotsky in his keynote report to the Congress, and when Terracini, the P.C.I. spokesman, defended it he found himself at the receiving end of one of Lenin’s most devastating polemical broadsides. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 120
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