The Italian Communist Party formed only after the revolutionary wave collapsed

Evidence

It was only after the defeat of the factory occupations in September, i.e. after the effective end of the period of postwar revolutionary upsurge, that the Party was in fact formed — on Bordiga’s terms. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 97

Categorization

• XREF: The timing — party formation lagging behind the mass movement’s peak — connects to how exclusionary ideologies consolidate only after movements for inclusion have already been defeated.