The Ordine Nuovo factory council group disintegrated politically by mid-1920
Evidence
The unity of the Ordine Nuovo group was lost in these months. Tasca’s dissent from the entire factory council thematic as developed by Gramsci came into the open, and he urged a turn back towards the traditional workingclass organisations. Terracini and Togliatti drew nearer to the maximalists who dominated the Turin section of the P.S.I., and the former was co-opted into the party leadership; they did not follow Gramsci in his moves towards Bordiga, but formed their own “electionist” faction as a rival to the “abstentionists”. Gramsci spent the following months promoting communist education groups in the factories; he later described Togliatti and Terracini as having “rejoined Tasca” in this period. Ordine Nuovo was no more able to organise nationally after the April moment of truth than it had been before. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 100
Categorization
- XREF: Sets up the split between educational/cultural organizing (factory education groups) and party-political factionalism — relevant to Gramsci’s later stress on cultural hegemony over electoral maneuvering.