Agrarian interests outweighed regional autonomy in consolidating national unity.

Evidence

The resistance of the Vendee properly speaking is linked to the national question, which had become envenomed among the peoples of Brittany and in general among those alien to the slogan of the “single and indivisible republic” and to the policy of bureaucratic-military centralisation—a slogan and a policy which the Jacobins could not renounce without committing suicide. … Except for certain marginal areas, where the national (and linguistic) differentiation was very great, the agrarian question proved stronger than aspirations to local autonomy. Rural France accepted the hegemony of Paris; in other words, it understood that in order definitively to destroy the old regime it had to make a bloc with the most advanced elements of the Third Estate, and not with the Girondin moderates. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 475

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later Islamophobia readings on how ‘common sense’ and material interest underwrite hegemonic national blocs. — connects to: A shared enemy alone cannot constitute national unity — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 532; Isolated smallholders combine into a nation only by mere addition, not social relation; National unity depended on cohesion among all urban forces
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A shared enemy alone cannot constitute national unity — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 532; Isolated smallholders combine into a nation only by mere addition, not social relation; National unity depended on cohesion among all urban forces

Broader Connections

• National unity depended on cohesion among all urban forces #complicates (0.73)