The Italian Communist Party was tiny relative to the masses it aimed to lead
Evidence
At the time of the electoral campaign, the P.C.I. had some 12,000 members (if the 2,000 “third-internationalists” are included). The youth organisation had a further 5,000. The communist trade-union committee controlled about a sixth of the 120,000 members who remained in the C.G.L. “When the new party daily Unita appeared in February, it gained a circulation of about 25,000; the new Ordine Nuovo came out in March in 6,000 copies. The party was moderately successful in the elections, with 19 members elected to parliament, and it maintained its vote compared to the 1921 election far better than the two socialist parties. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 159
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