Sources
Works and records cited in this dossier. Numbered references in the account lead to entries here.
- Third ECCI Plenum Session 15 Italian Question proceedings (23 June 1923) Executive Committee of the Communist International; Michael Taber, editor and translator. 1923-06-23.
- Source Work: Gramsci, Selections from Political Writings (1921-1926) Antonio Gramsci; Quintin Hoare, translator and editor. 1978.
Complete existing research record
1923-1924 leadership-record relevance
Research Memo: PCd'I Leadership Records, 1923-1924 records the exact source-qualified role and distinguishes designation, service, title use, and later report.
Documented 1922-24 role
Leader of the identifiable Rome Congress minority and later PCd'I Right, advocating closer acceptance of the Communist International's united-front line before Gramsci formed the Centre.
Analytic caution
The Right was an independent current. The dispute cannot be reduced to Gramsci and Bordiga alone.
Evidence
Research Memo: Gramsci and Bordiga, 1922-1924. Claim-level dates and source locators are in the memo and linked event records.
Why this person matters
Co-founded L'Ordine Nuovo in Turin in 1919.
Verification boundary
Membership, employment, collaboration, and influence are recorded as different relationship types. Shared membership is preserved as evidence but is not treated as proof of agreement or influence by itself.
Verified relationship
coFoundedJournal: L'Ordine Nuovo
Opening Journey research profile
Role: Socialist and communist organizer, editor, and union specialist
Turin Socialist activist, L'Ordine Nuovo co-founder and initial financial supporter, author of a distinct council-union position, PCd'I founder and worker/trade-union commission head, and early advocate of Comintern unity-of-action policy.
Geography
Moretta and Turin before 1921; Livorno, January 1921; later party work involving Moscow, Paris, Asti, and Lyon. Only locations tied to sourced events are used.
Analytic caution
Tasca opposed Gramsci's council-state formulation, not councils as such. The party-current label Right is relative and time-bounded.
Research memo: Research Memo: Gramsci's Pre-Prison Network
Evidence basis
Research Memo: Gramsci Before Prison
Sources
- Gwyn A.
- Joseph A. Buttigieg, ed.
- Fondazione Gramsci archival biography: Antonio Gramsci .
- Fondazione Gramsci archival biography: Palmiro Togliatti .