Trotsky’s Eastern-Western front comparison lacked practical directives.
Evidence
The question, therefore, was whether civil society resists before or after the attempt to seize power; where the latter takes place, etc. However, the question was outlined only in a brilliant, literary form, without directives of a practical character. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 895
Categorization
- XREF: Trotsky’s Eastern/Western front comparison — connects to debates about where civil society resists, relevant to how later theorists treat state vs society in Islamic contexts.