The strategy of permanent revolution lost efficacy after 1870-71.

Evidence

Furthermore, it was in 1870-71 that the body of principles of political strategy and tactics engendered in practice in 1789, and developed ideologically around ‘48, lost their efficacy. (I am referring to those which can be resumed in the formula of “Permanent Revolution”; it would be interesting to study how much of this formula passed into Mazzini’s strategy—for example, in the Milan insurrection of 1853—and whether this happened consciously or not.) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 753

Categorization

• QUESTION: Gramsci’s aside about Mazzini and permanent revolution is underexplored here — worth chasing whether Gramsci ever develops the Mazzini connection.