The PSI’s anti-resistance stance helped disarm the left before fascism.

Evidence

In August, the P.S.I.—who were so opposed to any armed resistance to fascism that they had actually published in Avanti! an extract from Papini’s Story of Christ under the banner headline: “Do Not Resist!”—signed a pacification pact with the fascists. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 131

Categorization

• XREF: The doctrinal pacifism that disarmed the left anticipates Gramsci’s critique of passive, purely verbal intransigence—a stance relevant to how non-militant or accommodationist strategies fail against exclusionary movements.