A state can substitute for a leading class in a passive revolution

Evidence

The result was that “what was involved was not a social group which ‘led’ other groups, but a State [Piedmont] which, even though it had limitations as a power, ‘led’ the group which should have been ‘leading’ ”. What was involved was a “passive revolution”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 378

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete example of ‘passive revolution’ — the state displacing the class that should lead.