A revolutionary class needs a peasant base and agrarian program to win

Evidence

Mazzini and the Action Party, the potential “Jacobins”, did not make any attempt to rouse the peasantry and draw it into the process of national unification; they did not promote any agrarian reform. Consequently, they failed to give the Risorgimento any popular dimension or themselves any solid class base. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 377